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Parent Announcement
| NIH-wide funding opportunity announcement enabling applicants to submit an electronic investigator-initiated grant application for a single grant mechanism, e.g., Research Project Grant (Parent R01). Go to Parent Announcements for Unsolicited or Investigator-Initiated Applications.
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Payline | A percentile-based funding cutoff point determined by balancing the projected number of applications coming to an NIH Institute with the amount of funds available. Set after the budget is determined, paylines are not mandatory, are not made for all mechanisms, and may be adjusted during the year. |
Peer Review | A form of objective review required by statute. It is an assessment of scientific or technical merit of applications by individuals with knowledge and expertise equivalent (peer) to that of the individuals whose applications for support they are reviewing, that is, reviewers who are the professional equals of the PD/PI for the proposed project and who often are engaged or were previously engaged in comparable activities |
Percentile | Represents the relative position or rank of each priority score (along a 100.0 percentile band) among the scores assigned by a particular study section.
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Phase III Clinical Trial
| As defined by NIH, a broadly based prospective Phase III clinical investigation (usually involving several hundred or more human subjects) to evaluate an experimental intervention in comparison with a standard or control intervention or to compare two or more existing treatments. The definition includes pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and behavioral interventions given for disease prevention, prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy. Community trials and other population-based intervention trials also are included. Go to Clinical Trial.
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PI Degree - Primary
| A list of all of the highest level degrees held by the principal investigator. Academic and professional doctorates are presented first, if any. If there aren't any of these, then Masters are presented, and so on.
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Primary (assignment)
| Routing of an NIH grant application by the Center for Scientific Review to an Institute or Center, which decides whether to fund it. An IC may request to change this assignment if the application is more suited to another IC. Also see Dual assignment.
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Primary PCC
| The Program Classification Code assigned to an application/award by the primary IC (see Primary assignment).
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Principal Investigator (PI)
| An individual designated by the grantee to direct the project or activity being supported by the grant. He or she is responsible and accountable to the grantee and NIH for the proper conduct of the project or activity. Also known as Program Director or Project Director.
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Program Announcement (PA) | A PA is a formal statement about a new or ongoing extramural activity or program. It may serve as a reminder of continuing interest in a research area, describe modification in an activity or program, and/or invite applications for grant support. Most applications in response to PAs may be submitted to a standing submission date and are reviewed with all other applications received at that time using standard peer review processes. NIH may also make funds available through PARs (PAs with special receipt, referral, and/or review considerations) and PASs (PAs with set-aside funds). PAs may be used for any support mechanism other than construction awards. Unless otherwise specified in the PA, new applications (and associated renewal and revision applications) submitted in response to PAs are treated as investigator-initiated. PAs also are used to annually solicit applications for the SBIR and STTR programs. Those applications must be received by the dates specified in the PA.
Program Announcements (PA) are published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Go to Program Announcements. |
Program Announcement Rewarded in an Institute (PAR) | Program Announcement soliciting applications with special receipt, referral and /or review considerations.
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Program Announcement with Set-Aside Funds (PAS) | Program announcement with set-aside funds.
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Program Classification Code (PCC) | An internal code unique for each I/C indicating the I/C's scientific interest and used to identify internal programs, branch classifications, the science or disease area, and sometimes program officials.
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Project Period | The total time for which support of a project has been programmatically approved. The total project period comprises the initial competitive segment, any subsequent competitive segment(s) resulting from a competing continuation award(s), and non-competing extensions.
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Public Health Service (PHS) | Umbrella organization in the U.S. Federal Government consisting of eight HHS health Agencies, the Office of Public Health and Science, and the Commissioned Corps (a uniformed service of more than 6,000 health professionals). The NIH is the largest Agency within the PHS. Go to Office of Public Health and Science, HHS. |
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