I agree with Mary that you should fix the problems if you have the chance.  We did it for a similar thing 3 weeks ago.

However, you may hear from NIH that rejection of applications should only be done if there are system errors that have caused the image of the proposal to be messed up.  Thus, your reason may not be officially approved as acceptable.  Their point, a valid one, is that the system will get totally clogged around deadline if people are rejecting and resubmitting for any reason they choose, including to add text that they hadn't written or forgot about.

Again, with Mary, I would never let a system or technicality negatively impact the review of a PI's science.

Charlie

At 03:42 PM 6/23/2006, you wrote:
>Yesterday, Michigan Tech submitted a proposal to NIH via grants.gov for the AREA solicitation.  The proposal was accepted by eRA Commons.  When the PI reviewed the grant image in Commons, he noticed a misquote in the introduction, a structure error, a figure error and some typos.
>
>Is this an acceptable reason for us to reject the application and resubmit since it is prior to the submission deadline (6/25/06)?  I have contacted NIH but I have not heard back from them yet.
>
>Thank you in advance for your help.
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