Important Reminders for Fellowship and Career Development Applicants
Planning to apply for a fellowship or career development award? If so, don’t forget your ORCID iD.
NIH is encouraging everybody from graduate students to senior scientists to register for an ORCID account and link it
to their eRA Commons personal profile. But for some grant applicants, it’s an absolute must.
ORCID iDs are required for PD/PIs on individual fellowship and career development applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2020. NIH’s eRA systems will check the PD/PI eRA Commons IDs on all submitted fellowship and career development applications. If there isn’t a linked ORCID iD, an error will be generated preventing the application from moving forward
to NIH for consideration. For more details, see NIH’s Guide Notice or the Open Mike blog on this topic.
While in your eRA Commons profile linking your ORCID iD, NIH suggests you take the opportunity to make sure all your profile information is current. If you selected “Do not wish to provide” in the demographics section, NIH asks that you please consider revising your selection. The information you provide will be kept confidential and used for aggregate statistical reporting only. Reports generated from this demographic data assist NIH in evaluating the impact of efforts to improve diversity in the scientific workforce.