Unfunded Application Notification

NIH will send centralized automated correspondence to applicant organizations notifying them of NIH’s intent not to fund the indicated applications. A consolidated email, listing the applications which NIH does not intend to fund, will be sent by eRA Commons to the authorized organization representative (AOR) and signing official (SO) listed in the grant application, and to the Notice of Award email address listed in the applicant’s Institutional Profile. The email will be sent approximately 14 months after the application’s council date.

In addition to receiving official email correspondence, applicants can identify if the Unfunded Application Notification has been sent for a specific grant application in the eRA Commons.

Please also note that the funding decisions indicated in the correspondence are specific to the applications included in the email and have no impact on subsequent submissions, including resubmissions. No changes have been made to NIH’s application submission/resubmission policy, as outlined in NOT-OD-18-197.

Authorized eRA Commons users (PIs, SOs, and delegated Assistants) can see if an unfunded application notification has been sent for a specific application by viewing the Status Information in eRA Commons, which also shows the date the unfunded notification was sent. However, external users cannot view the content of the notification through eRA Commons.