{"id":62406,"date":"2026-03-31T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/?p=62406"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:38:35","slug":"nih-prior-approval-requirement-for-changes-to-domestic-subawards-effective-june-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/2026\/03\/31\/nih-prior-approval-requirement-for-changes-to-domestic-subawards-effective-june-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Prior Approval Requirement for Changes to Domestic Subawards, Effective June 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NIH is updating the prior approval requirement for changes to domestic subawards on all NIH grants and cooperative agreements, effective June 1, 2026. For full details, read NIH notice <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-26-062.html\">NOT-OD-26-062<\/a> and the summary of changes below.<\/p>\n<h3>Summary of Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Effective June 1, 2026, all prime recipients are now required to obtain NIH prior approval when adding a new domestic subaward to a project post-award, when the arrangement was not originally a part of the peer-reviewed and approved application. This new prior approval requirement is intended to ensure that NIH is aware of all subaward activities for each NIH project.<\/p>\n<p>Requests must be submitted in the eRA Commons Prior Approval Module using the &#8220;Other Request&#8221; type.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/offices-contacts\/research-support-offices\/sponsored-programs\/departmental-contacts\/\">Pre-Award Officer<\/a> with any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIH is updating the prior approval requirement for changes to domestic subawards on all NIH grants and cooperative agreements, effective June 1, 2026. For full details, read NIH notice NOT-OD-26-062 and the summary of changes below. Summary of Changes Effective June 1, 2026, all prime recipients are now required to obtain NIH prior approval when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19797,"featured_media":62273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[245],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62439,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406\/revisions\/62439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}