Administrative supplements cover previously unanticipated expenses within the original aims of the project. NIH has ended the 25 percent rebudgeting requirement. With no budget categories in place, PIs have more flexibility to allocate their funds. Don't forget the checklist. The checklist is required to be submitted with the application.
Modular grants are a big change.
To assess the success of the approach, NIH is soliciting comments from the scientific community for one year. This issue has emerged as the growth of support to sequence pathogen genomes is now bearing fruit. Disseminating data expeditiously is important because, in contrast to human sequencing, even short stretches of microbial sequences can contain a lot of valuable information. While rapid data dissemination benefits the research community, it can hurt the individual grantee because the goals of these investigator-initiated R01s usually involve more than just sequencing. Thus, early release of data may interfere with a grantee's intellectual property rights and the opportunity not only to publish the data but to conduct further research.