{"id":45127,"date":"2020-11-09T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/?p=45127"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:17:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:17:52","slug":"extended-guidance-for-applicants-preparing-applications-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/2020\/11\/09\/extended-guidance-for-applicants-preparing-applications-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Guidance for Applicants Preparing Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NIH is committed to supporting the biomedical research enterprise as the nation implements the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/openingamerica\/\"><u>President&#8217;s Guidelines for Re-Opening America Again<\/u><\/a>. The purpose of this Notice is to extend the guidance below for applicants preparing applications during the COVID-19 pandemic (<a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-20-122.html\"><u>NOT-OD-21-122<\/u><\/a>)&nbsp;<strong><em>until further notice<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NIH grant applications should NOT include contingency plans that would outline steps needed to recover from temporary, emergency situations, or institutional return-to-the-workplace plans, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contingency plans will not be considered in peer review but, if needed, COVID-19 contingency plans will be requested and carefully considered by NIH staff before funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reviewers will continue to receive instruction to assume that temporary, emergency problems arising from the COVID-19 pandemic will be resolved and complications related to COVID-19 should not affect their scores. Reviewers will be instructed to disregard situations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, e.g., temporary declines in productivity, availability of key personnel, proposed patient populations, animal facility shutdowns, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, please visit the NIH <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-21-026.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-21-026.html\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NIH is committed to supporting the biomedical research enterprise as the nation implements the&nbsp;President&#8217;s Guidelines for Re-Opening America Again. The purpose of this Notice is to extend the guidance below for applicants preparing applications during the COVID-19 pandemic (NOT-OD-21-122)&nbsp;until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/2020\/11\/09\/extended-guidance-for-applicants-preparing-applications-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127\/revisions\/45131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}