Grants.gov Downtime: How This Impacts NIGMS September 2022 Applications

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Grants.gov is migrating to the cloud, resulting in a period of planned downtime for the website. Though necessary, the downtime will significantly impact preparing and submitting your grant applications to NIH. The Grants.gov system outage will begin on Friday, September 23, at 12:01 a.m. ET, and end on Thursday, September 29, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

In response to this system outage, application due dates falling between September 22 and September 30 will move to October 3. You can learn more about these deadlines in NOT-OD-22-190, as well as on the Grants.gov community blog and the NIH Office of Extramural Research website.

Remember:

  • Applicants will be unable to apply to funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) during the downtime. Any NIH due dates that fall between September 22 and September 30 will automatically move to October 3; however, FOAs will not be updated to reflect this change.
  • All applications that were started before the migration will be available once Grants.gov comes back online after the migration is complete. Progress made on applications started before the migration will be saved.
  • The 2-week consideration window associated with the NIH Late Application Policy (when applicable) will be calculated from the original due dates.

Impact of Grants.gov Downtime to NIGMS Applicants:

FOA Number
FOA Title
Application Due Date Impacted by Grants.gov Downtime
New Application Due Date
National Institute of General Medical Sciences Predoctoral Institutional Research Training Grant (T32-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
September 25, 2022
October 3, 2022
Medical Scientist Training Program (T32)
September 25, 2022
October 3, 2022
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program (T34)
September 26, 2022
October 3, 2022
IDeA Clinical Research Resource Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
September 26, 2022
October 3, 2022
Biomedical Knowledgebase (U24-Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
September 26, 2022
October 3, 2022
Biomedical Data Repository (U24-Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
September 26, 2022
October 3, 2022
Bridges to the Doctorate Research Training Program (T32)
September 27, 2022
October 3, 2022
Limited Competition: Renewal of Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) (Phase 2) (P20-Clinical Trial Optional)
September 27, 2022
October 3, 2022
Support for Research Excellence-First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award (R16-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
September 28, 2022
October 3, 2022

Need Help? If there are unexpected issues or changes to the downtime schedule, updates will be posted to the Grants.gov alerts webpage. If you experience any issues with your submission following Grants.gov’s return to service (e.g., a Grants.gov message indicating the opportunity is closed), please contact the eRA service desk for assistance.

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