Electronic NIH grant application submissions are at least another year away, says Pamela Webb, director of research and sponsored programs at the Chicago Campus of Northwestern University. Webb is one of 16 members of an NIH advisory committee that is assisting in a $33 million, one-year NIH electronic grants administration initiative. But the project is turning out to be more complex than the agency predicted. Not only does the agency have to work out a seamless electronic filing process, but it must also create online systems for the multiple reviews, awards, and reports required in grant making. "Once you start looking under the hood, it's an incredibly complex process," explains Webb. "It's much more complex than it appears to be on the surface. There are so many pieces of data in the life cycle of a process."
NIH expects to bring a pilot electronic streamlined non-competing application process (ESNAP) online ...
