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Notice of Change to Key Dates for RFA-NS-25-025: Exploratory/Developmental Research on Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) (R21 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Expiration Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-026
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Notice Type: NOT
Request for Information on Draft Priorities for the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee's Action Plan
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-022
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Notice Type: NOT
The purpose of this announcement is to request comments and suggestions from the public on draft priorities for the 2025 renewal of the Action Plan for the Muscular Dystrophies.
This Action Plan is a ten-year strategic planning document of gaps and opportunities for research and strategies for improving the lives of affected individuals developed by the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC).
Notice of Change: NINDS Participation in PAR-22-213 "Complex Integrated Multi-Component Projects in Aging Research (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)"
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-021
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Notice Type: NOT
Secondary participation
Notice of Change: Expiration of RFA-NS-24-019: HEAL Initiative: Non-addictive Analgesic Therapeutics Development [Small Molecules and Biologics] to Treat Pain (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-024
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Notice Type: NOT
Expiring this NOFO.
Notice of Change: NINDS and Blueprint Participation in PA-25-168: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T32)
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-020
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Notice Type: NOT
NINDS and BluePrint will join the NIH Parent T32 NOFO.
Notice of Change: NINDS Interests for PAR-25-143 "Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)"
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-016
Friday, January 17, 2025
Notice Type: NOT
Adding NINDS-specific language.
Notice of Change: Only BESH CT Applications Accepted in PAR-25-050, PAR-24-098, PAR-25-055, PAR-24-096
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-009
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Notice Type: NOT
This notice is to clarify that onlyBasic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) clinical trials are withinscope of the above NOFOs (PAR-25-020, PAR-25-055, PAR-24-098, and PAR-24-096). BESH are prospective basic science studies involving human participants (also see NOT-OD-18-212). These studies fall within the NIH definition of a clinical trial and also meet the definition of basic research. The types of studies that applicants should submit in response to these NOFOs include studies that prospectively assign human participants to conditions (i.e., experimentally manipulate independent variables) and that assess biomedical or behavioral outcomes in humans for the purpose of understanding the fundamental aspects of phenomena without specific application towards processes or products in mind.
Notice of Change: NINDS Participation in RFA-EY-25-001: BRAIN Initiative: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21) (Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-012
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Notice Type: NOT
NINDS is joining for BRAIN.
Notice of Change: Update to Eligibility for PAR-25-234: NINDS Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Training of Postdoctoral Fellows (F32 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-25-007
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Notice Type: NOT
The purpose of this Notice is to update the Eligible Individuals (Program Director/Principal Investigator section). This NOFO is only open to individuals that are citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the United States of America.
Announcement of Childcare Costs for Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Programs F99 Recipients
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 1, 2028
NOFO Number: NOT-OD-25-008
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Notice Type: NOT
In April 2021 and September 2021, NIH began providing childcare cost support, respectively to recipients of full-time NRSA fellowships and training grants in recognition that the high cost of childcare impacts graduate student and postdoctoral scholar ability to successfully complete their training and fully participate in the extramural research workforce (NOT-OD-21-074; NOT-OD-21-177; NOT-OD-24-116). Beginning in FY25, NIH will begin providing childcare cost support to individuals supported as full-time recipients of Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) programs during the F99 phase of the award.