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The first step to NIH funding is closely reading your funding opportunity, which contains important information about eligibility, application submission, and review. Let’s take a guided tour of the structure of a typical NIH Notice of Funding Opportunity, or NOFO. 

Study of CB1 receptor has implications for chronic pain treatment.

Nursing for at least six months may spur beneficial gut bacteria connected to better heart health years later.

Are you a signing official or principal investigator planning to be away from the office?  Do not let award management tasks pile up in your absence. Simply use the delegation feature in eRA Commons to allow others to act on your behalf. To accommodate scheduled absences and the need for assistance with award management tasks, delegation of specific duties and privileges are baked into the design of eRA Commons. 

Scientists found that, when deprived of amino acids, cancer cells cooperated to extract and share them from their environment.

Researchers found that infectious bacteria in diabetic mice rapidly evolved resistance to antibiotics.

Researchers developed a way to track what people ate by analyzing DNA from stool samples.

High rate of oral immunotherapy side effects in NIH trial explains superiority of omalizumab.

NIH study reveals key players underlying disease onset and repair.

Tiny electrodes placed precisely in the brain let people with spinal cord injuries feel sensations of shape, motion, and the orientation of objects on the skin.

Peanut-allergic children who could tolerate eating at least a half peanut greatly boosted their tolerance by eating gradually increased daily doses of peanut butter.

Researchers found how scratching can worsen allergic skin symptoms but also protect from infection.

Researchers identified antibodies that bind to a previously untargeted portion of the malaria parasite.

Multifocal contact lenses slowed progression of nearsightedness in children, and the treatment benefit continued even after they stopped wearing the lenses.

Researchers estimated that 42% of Americans over age 55 will eventually develop dementia.

Researchers have made huge strides in learning how to detect signs of cancer in bodily fluids like blood, saliva, and urine. Learn how these liquid biopsies are being tested to aid early cancer detection and guide treatment.

Dengue virus sickens as many as 400 million people each year, primarily in tropical and subtropical parts of the world.

NIH science lays groundwork for future studies in people.

Findings highlight the importance of infection prevention measures and personalized heart failure care.

NIH study identifies previously unknown adaptation.