Early Stage Investigators (Part 2): Extensions

Are you coming to the end of your research training and thinking about next steps, wondering what it means to be an “early stage investigator (ESI)“? Maybe you already know you are an ESI, but want to know what it means for your application. Perhaps the pandemic or another major life event affected your research progress and you want to know more about how to extend your ESI status?

Take a few minutes and join us for this NIH All About Grants podcast mini-series. In part 2 of this two-part conversation, Dr. Shoshana Kahana from the NIH Office of Extramural Research and Dr. Melissa Stick of the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders join us to discuss extending one’s ESI status

“… NIH recognizes that basically life happens… there are events that will impact an investigator’s ability to do research and may result in a lapse in research or research training… So to accommodate [the] loss in research effort and these breaks, we have a process now where we’re going to consider requests that investigators submit to extend their ESI period.” – Dr. Melissa Stick