To Do in 2025: Keep Your eRA Personal Profile Updated

January 15, 2025

The Personal Profile module in eRA Commons is where you — as a principal investigator, award recipient, trainee, reviewer or other Commons user — tell NIH and other awarding agencies about yourself. Awarding agencies need to know about you to grant awards, process those awards and more. Here are a few reasons that it is extremely important to keep your Personal Profile updated.  

NIH Implementation of the U.S. Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP)

January 14, 2025

NIH has issued agency-specific information regarding its implementation of the U.S. Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (DURC/PEPP Policy). The policy, which goes into effect May 6, 2025, is a unified federal oversight framework for conducting and managing certain types of federally funded life sciences research on biological agents and toxins.