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September 3, 2025

NIH will stop posting notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts

On 8/15/2025, NIH announced they will stop posting Notices of Funding Opportunities in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts.

Beginning in October, at the start of the federal fiscal year 2026:

  • All NIH Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) will remain searchable on Grants.gov.
  • NOFOs will no longer be included in the weekly NIH Guide Table of Contents subscription emails.
  • NIH recommends using the Grants.gov subscription services to receive notifications of new NIH funding opportunities.
  • Review NIH’s Updates to Finding NIH Funding Opportunities and Information for more tips on finding and searching NIH NOFOs after 9/30/2025.

OSP Reminders for NIH Application Preparation

  • We highly recommend you prepare your NIH applications in Grant Runner or NIH’s ASSIST.
  • Grant Runner and ASSIST both automatically run NIH validation checks when an application is moved to “Ready for Submission” status.
    • Grants.gov Workspace does not automatically run these NIH validations on an application.
  • If you are preparing NIH multi-component applications, you must use ASSIST. Grant Runner and Grants.gov Workspace do not support these applications.