Use these resources from our partners at other NIH institutes and centers to help improve your application, find additional support, meet new collaborators, or advance your career.
Finding Your Place at NIH
Find your Program Officer or Review Officer:
- Center for Scientific Review's (CSR's) Assisted Referral Tool: This tool was developed to suggest the potential Scientific Review Officer and Study Section where your application may go.
- NIH Reporter Matchmaker Tool: Find the potential Program Officer, NIH institute or Review Panel for your application, based on your Abstract or Specific Aims sections.
Planning and Writing Your Application
These resources are collected from institutes across the NIH and offer tips for writing your application.
- Resources from CSR provide help planning and writing your grant application
- Review a collection of sample applications from around the NIH
- Sample applications from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Sample applications from the NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- Information from the NIH Central Resource for Grants and Funding Information on Human Subjects Research
- Clinical Trials Information:
- Guidance on preparing the Vertebrate Animals Section of your application
- Watch an NIH Mock Study Section
Jump Start Your Career!
Applying to become an NIH peer reviewer has many benefits for an Assistant Professor or Instructor. By participating as a peer reviewer, you gain valuable insights on how to improve your applications, network with peers in your scientific community, and give back to your discipline by providing your expertise. Multiple opportunities exist around the NIH where you can volunteer your expertise.
- CSR Early Career Reviewer Program
- NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Volunteer Review Portal:
- Read an informative blogpost from the NIGMS Feedback Loop blog
- Sign up to be a peer reviewer
- Volunteer for a NIAID Peer Review Committee: If you're interested in participating on a special emphasis panel (SEP) at NIAID, email [email protected] in the NIAID Scientific Review Program. Send a CV and a very brief summary of your areas of expertise.