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Who Must Use the Modular Grant Application?
Required for new, renewal, and resubmission applications as well as for revisions for the following grants and their cooperative agreement equivalents that request up to a total of $250,000 of direct costs per year (excluding consortium F&A costs), regardless of whether the application is an investigator-initiated application or is one submitted in response to a PA/RFA:
Background
The modular research grant application format is an extension of NIH's streamlining and reinvention initiatives, designed to focus the attention of investigators, their institutions, peer reviewers, and NIH staff on science rather than budget details.
Application Instructions and Forms
Peer Review of Modular Budgets
The following guidance includes information for how reviewers should evaluate applications with modular budgets.
NIH Guide Notices
- NIH Announces Requirement for Detailed (Non-Modular) Budget Submissions for All Competing Grant Applications from Foreign (Non-U.S.) Institutions (08/23/2006)
- NIH Announces Revised Policy: Applications that Include Consortium/Contractual Facilities and Administrative Costs (11/02/2004)
- Modular Grant Applications: Modifications and Update (1/24/2000)
- Modular Grant Application and Award (12/15/1998) - Original guidelines for submitting Modular Grant Proposals to NIH
Current Data and Evaluation Information
- NIH Modular Grants: Data Charts (03/05/2007) (1.81 MB)
Historical Documents
Modular Grant Application Update: Peer Review (02/08/2000) (76 KB)