NCCIH Research Blog

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is currently operating under the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 118-83) signed by President Biden on September 26, 2024. A Federal budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 is not yet in place as of the date of this blog post. 

The Act above continues Federal operations through December 20, 2024, at the FY 2024 enacted level and with no reduction in the NIH budget. The announcement is in NIH notice number NOT-OD-25-010, NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution.

If you are an NIH-supported fellow or researcher, what does this Continuing Resolution mean for you?

• If you’re a predoctoral or postdoctoral fellow, the stipend levels and tuition/fees described in NIH Notice NOT-OD-24-104 (Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipends, Tuition/Fees and Other Budgetary Levels Effective for FY 2024 will remain in place. 
• If you’re a researcher whose salary is paid fully or in part from your grant support, the salary limitations set at Executive Level II of the Federal pay scale have been recently updated as outlined in NOT-OD-25-025 (Updated Guidance on Salary Limitation for Grants and Cooperative Agreements).

How does the Continuing Resolution affect your funded grant? Some points from the recently updated National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) funding strategy for FY 2025 help answer this question: 

• For noncompeting continuation applications, also called noncompeting renewals, NCCIH will issue these awards with a 10 percent reduction from the commitment level in the notice of award.
• NCCIH plans to award the following types of grants at 100 percent of the commitment levels in the notice of award: grants for career development, training, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR). This also includes transition awards—such as the R21/R33, R61/R33, and UG3/UH3 mechanisms—that have been approved to move into the grant’s second phase.
• NCCIH may consider upward adjustments to awarded levels for those that were previously issued with a 10 percent reduction after Congress has enacted FY 2025 appropriations that the President has signed.

If you are a researcher who has submitted a new application currently pending review, it’s important to keep in mind that NCCIH-posted funding zones are typically more conservative under a continuing resolution. However, they may be reconsidered once a budget is passed. Please check back on our funding strategy page for new information as it becomes available.

Resources that address many questions about NIH grant funding under the Continuing Resolution appear below. If you have further questions, please feel free to email Martina.Schmidt@nih.gov.

For More Information

• NCCIH Funding Strategy FY 2025 
• Congressional Justification FY 2025
• Overview of FY 2025 President's Budget (NIH)