Early Stage Investigators Hub

 

Your ESI Toolkit:

Resource Description
Contact Your NIH/NCI Program Officer/Director (Matchmaker)  Enter abstracts or other scientific text and Matchmaker will return lists of similar projects from RePORTER or program officials associated with those projects. 
Search for Funding Opportunities All NIH grant and cooperative agreement notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) are posted on Grants.gov, a central portal for federal agencies to announce discretionary funding opportunities.
Subscribe to Email Alerts Sign up for email updates and RSS feeds and follow the NIH Office of Extramural Research on social media.
NCI Division of Cancer Biology (DCB) New Grantee Workshop DCB hosts an annual workshop to help recent first-time NIH grantees learn about DCB, NCI, and NIH processes and standards. 
CSR Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Unique, first-hand experience with CSR peer review to improve your own grant writing skills by getting an insider’s view of how grant applications are evaluated
Request an Extension to ESI Status NIH will consider requests to extend the ESI period for reasons that can include family care responsibilities, medical concerns, disability, natural disasters, and active duty military service.

 

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Thanks to Drs. Lilian Kuo and Nastaran Zahir of NCI for compiling these resources.