New Application Structure for NIH Funded International Collaborations, including Subawards

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced in NOT-OD-25-155 a new application and award structure for NIH-funded projects with foreign components. This is a follow up to the NIH policy on Foreign Subawards previously released in NOT-OD-25-104.

For grants requesting NIH funding for one or more foreign components, NIH will require that competing applications submit applications to a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) that supports the new PF5 Activity Code for grants, new UF5 Activity Code for cooperative agreements, or another complex mechanism activity code that supports the International Project component type.

NIH will be developing and posting resources, including FAQs, as well as planning training on the new activity codes and application structure. We will share details as we receive them.

Please reach out to your Pre-Award Officer with any questions.