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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) does not use COMMONS for proposal submission in the same way that the National Science Foundation (NSF) does but you must have a COMMONS account to apply to NIH.\u00a0 While the proposal is submitted through grants.gov, the federal portal for grants submissions, it is retrieved by NIH through the COMMONS system and then reviewed through that system.<\/p>\n
COMMONS users can have many roles.\u00a0 Researchers can be Principal Investigators, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Reviewers.\u00a0 ORSP acts as the Authorizing Official and Signing Officials for ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ, the organization.\u00a0 The Research Foundation submits the financial reports through the COMMONS.<\/p>\n
If you have never reviewed or submitted an NIH proposal within the last seven years, you probably don\u2019t have a COMMONS account.\u00a0 If that is the case, just call ORSP at 718-997-5400 and ask for someone to help you in setting up an NIH COMMONS account.\u00a0 Once your account is set up, an email is sent to you with a very long password which you will be requested to change as soon as you log-in. Once your COMMONS ID has been established, log in and complete your profile.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you already have a COMMONS account either from another institution, or set up to review grants, do not request a new account from ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ.\u00a0 We only need to affiliate your account with Queens and you merely update your personal profile information.<\/p>\n
Bear in mind that COMMONS personal profile information is used to match you with your grant application. Please enter the information carefully and verify the information is correct. A good idea is to print out your profile and keep it as a template for filling in the NIH forms.\u00a0 Your COMMONS User ID is required as a key element on the NIH biosketch form.\u00a0 Please choose something that is easy to remember and can identify you easily.<\/p>\n
In addition to COMMONS being used for proposal submission, it is also used for post-award administration, including requesting an extension and preparing the NIH progress report, etc.\u00a0 The COMMONS is also the method used for submitting pre-award Just-in-Time documents such as human subjects approval and Current and Pending Support information.\u00a0 In addition, it is used to document predoctoral students being supported through training grants.<\/p>\n