New FAQs for Early Stage Investigators

Are you an Early Stage Investigator (ESI)? A new FAQ is available:

• Does my ESI status or an extension to my ESI status impact the 4-year rule for other NIH grant activity codes (e.g., K99/R00)?

No. ESI policies and the "no more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience" requirement for some of the NIH's funding opportunities (e.g., K99/R00) are two separate policies and do not impact one another. Read the full FAQ for details.

Planning to apply for a Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant? See the below new FAQs:

• In a Katz application, is it permissible to cite data from a publicly available database that doesn't have a DOI?
• A PI hoping to apply for a Katz award has run some simple calculations that support the proposed approach. Acquisition of data was not required for these calculations. Would these fall under the definition of preliminary data?
• When applying for a Katz award, is it permissible to propose to use data or biosamples from a database or repository that is not publicly available (and therefore doesn't have a DOI)?