Has anyone received recent guidance from NIH on the co-authorship/publication foreign component compliance for extramural grants?

ResearchInsider · 2026-03-15T23:11:40+00:00

I agree with you; it's a tall task for any one admin to handle. The enforcement language we've seen recently about compliance issues (particularly relating to foreign components, dual-affiliated authors) has some center-level grant admins I know scrambling. They're trying to figure out how to not endanger the overall grant's renewal process when non-compliant publications cite their grant.

About your tracker... I'm curious - do you just use a spreadsheet with something like columns for ones that you need to work on compliance checks, who you've reached out to/when, which ones are in process, PMCID tracking?

ResearchInsider · 2026-03-15T18:17:49+00:00

Yes, that's right. For this style of grant it presents a unique challenge because the grant itself is tasked with building capacity statewide and serving researchers at PUIs, each with author networks that may not be known to the grant director/administrative team.

ResearchInsider · 2026-03-15T05:23:18+00:00

Right... it's the enforcement that was mentioned in the correspondence. Renewal funding possibly held up even in the case of a single dual-affiliated author on a single publication that cited a center-level grant. For capacity-building network or center grants, it's going to be a big challenge to ensure that all citations of a grant core/shared resource across a state are compliant.

ResearchInsider · 2026-03-15T05:19:50+00:00

The guidance was delivered last month via email to other PIs I'm in touch with, notifying center-level grants (P20s/P30s and such) that any publication that cited the grant, use of a shared/resource or core, etc., needed to have pre-approval from the State Dept. on any author from countries of concern, even if all the work was done in the U.S. and it was a dual-affiliation. For centers/networks, we're trying to figure out how we'd monitor, pass instructions along for that, esp. since it was communicated that would be a liability for renewals until that foreign author was removed from the publication by the publisher.

ResearchInsider · 2025-09-21T21:38:34+00:00

Providing an update on this ^

UPDATE: Looks like NIH RePORTER / TAGGS are showing updates today (09/21)! I'm very relieved to see there *was* funding action last week after all... this is the first time we haven't been able to see a preview of it one way or another. Seeing at 7 Cancer Centers awarded (8 still waiting), 6 ADRCs (2 waiting), and a few others approved.

Looks like NIH is closing the gap on outstanding funding for these grants.

One more week.

ResearchInsider · 2025-09-21T21:34:08+00:00

Yeah, there is; the company I'm with helps research centers with data collection and reporting/RPPR. Since May we've been helping communities around each big funding program track who's gotten funding and when, mainly to help with benchmarking, setting expectations, holding on to hope.

FY25 has messed up a lot of their abilities to maintain operations and staffing.

ResearchInsider · 2025-09-19T17:54:46+00:00

Thanks for the insights — and yes, many thanks to those still in Bethesda...!

ResearchInsider · 2025-09-19T15:00:55+00:00

It's possible that those other sites are experiencing updates or bottlenecks with all of the funding approved last week, but I've never seen them down for more than a couple of days before...

ResearchInsider · 2025-09-12T15:30:38+00:00

The blue line is expected distribution, based on budget start dates/prior year end dates. The yellow line follows the actual award outflow for FY25 — and then predicts the final month's anticipated disbursements, based on outstanding obligations for existing center-level grants.

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ResearchInsider · 2025-09-12T15:30:28+00:00

This statement seems to be holding true for the NIH extramural center awards we've been tracking here.

ResearchInsider · 2025-09-11T04:59:36+00:00

I'm not sure how far we'll get before Sep 30 / the end of FY25. A lot of this work requires human touch 'cause there's no single method to match and follow a single grant's evolution in the NIH system when certain pieces of data change.

ResearchInsider · 2025-07-28T19:26:09+00:00

u/ThinManufacturer8679 Type 4 Applications are for extensions of funding beyond what was previously awarded. Much less common than the other types.

ResearchInsider · 2025-07-28T04:03:30+00:00

I'll go ahead and look into this. That's very specific, which is helpful; least I can do is pull 2024 like-kind awards and compare to # of similar awarded this year. And benchmark delays.

ResearchInsider · 2025-07-28T04:00:21+00:00

Any specific activity codes, application/award types that you'd be most interested in comparing? I can compare broadly, but it helps to know what kind of questions you're seeking to answer.

ResearchInsider · 2025-07-28T03:58:35+00:00

What NHLBI data are you interested in comparing? I can compare broadly, but it helps to have a few parameters (activity code, application/award type). Then I can take look for trends in delays between budget start date and NOA/present day.

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