To align applicant and recipient systems with NIH's longstanding policy requirements and application requirement updates, NIH expects applicants and recipients to use the updated biosketch and other support format for applications, Just-in-Time (JIT) Reports, and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs) as of May 25, 2021. Aim for balance.This notice describes implementation of the updated Other Support and Biosketch format pages and associated instructions, as outlined in NOT-OD-21-073. What this means is that getting feedback from colleagues and mentors is more important than ever. This new format is going to throw many people including reviewers for a loop and it’s hard to judge what is “right” and “wrong” on this. You get the idea from these silly examples. Developed safe and effective Ebola Vaccine. The NIH doesn’t mention this nor does the example they give do this, but I recommend giving each of your subsections in Part C its own title. Give each of your top contributions to science and their respective subsections a title.Since this is a new biosketch format, it remains to be seen how study sections will react to this new Section C that in an unprecedented way invites researchers to talk about themselves and their science in more depth. The tricky part, of course, is to find the right balance between tooting your own horn appropriately and seeming like a show off. A PO stressed how important they thought this was going to be and how there may be crosstalk between these new sections and parts of the actual proposal itself. What are your top few specific contributions to science? The biosketch gives you an entire section, Section C, to describe up to 5 of your hopefully transformative contributions to science.This was the suggested solution given by a PO. Wanna list the same pub(s) in both Sections A and C? While there is to my knowledge no official policy on re-listing the same pubs twice in the new biosketch, that may be the best solution to turn to if you ran into the issue like I did of finding that some of the same pubs fit nicely both into Section A and into part of Section C.These 24 pubs include 4 in section A (Personal statement) that most directly relate to the proposal plus up to 4 each in up to 5 areas of contributions to science. What are your top 24 pubs? In the new sketch you can in theory list up to 24 publications instead of just 15.As always you do not have to fill all the allowed pages, but given the new format it might be wise to make use of some of the extra space. The new format allows for 5 pages instead of 4 pages. Someone told me that at one point their link didn’t work. Here’s what my link itself actually looks like. As an example, here’s my My Bibliography page, which I also had to make public to get the link. Check that your My Bibliography link actually works.You can cut and paste it into your biosketch. Where exactly to find your My Bibliography link? See screen shot from my My NCBI page.Don’t know what the heck a My Bibliography page is? Then you’re in a bit of a hole, but don’t give up. This means that you need to update your My Bibliography to reflect all your pubs. NIH, which has always in the past prohibited any web links in our proposals, now requires one in your new biosketch in the form of your link to your My Bibliography page on NCBI. Here’s the NIH instructions and an example of a new biosketch. To do it right will take you some hours of work. You don’t have to finish it right away given the May start point for mandatory use, but the process of making your own new biosketch will take time. I still do not know how this grant has fared in study section of course and what reviewers might have thought of my new biosketch so that’s an important disclaimer here. In the process of writing up my new NIH biosketch, I learned some important things and got feedback from colleagues, program officers (PO), and others. Since I am submitted a grant last month for the February 5 deadline I made a new biosketch draft before they pushed the required date back. Originally it was going to be required for January 2015 proposals, but now it must be used by May or later. NIH has done research and come up with a new biosketch for all of us to use with our proposals. Got your new mandatory NIH biosketch all done?
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