Question for NIH types:

Is it permissible to have the same science being reviewed simultaneously for 2 different funding programs/mechanisms?
e.g.
an R01 and a P01 project
a response to an RFA and an unsolicited application
or even an R03 and part of an R01

I was under the impression that it had long been forbidden (though of course difficult to enforce especially with the Just-in-Time now applied to Other Support pages) within NIH and had recently been extended first to all PHS and then to all federal agencies (with major focus on eliminating simultaneous NIH and NSF applications).

Someone is going to answer that of course it is alright as long as you don't accept both.  But that is my question: is it really OK?

I was at an NIAID meeting last week where a program director said that there was no policy against simultaneous submission of the same proposal as both an independent R01 and as part of a center application...BUT...he strongly discouraged it on the grounds that reviewers for the center would think less of the center application if they knew the PIs were covering their bets with the R01.

Does anyone know...is he right about no policy for ALL of NIH?

Any thoughts?

Charlie

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