Determining Your ESI Status

You can find your ESI Status in your Personal Profile. To find your ESI Status:

1. Log into an eRA Commons account with a Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) role.

2. Click the Personal Profile button or click the Apps menu and select Personal Profile. The Personal Profile Summary appears.



3. Click the Edit button at the top right of the Personal Profile screen.

NOTE: ESI buttons and information do NOT appear until and unless you click the Edit button for the Personal Profile.

4. Expand the Education section, and at the bottom of the section you see an area labeled Early Stage Investigator (ESI) Status.
   If you are no longer an Early Stage Investigator, you see a note informing you of that status:



If you are still an Early Stage Investigator, you see the date when your ESI status ends.



If you are near your ESI Status end date, and you experienced a qualifying event where you were unable to work, such as a natural disaster, you can apply for an extension of your ESI Status to cover the time period lost to the qualified event. See How to Access the Button for Requesting an ESI Extension.