Using Pitt Email Accounts for NIH Data Requests
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are notifying investigators that data access requests to NIH Controlled-Access Data Repositories are denied or canceled for the following reasons:
- The request does not comply with Guide Notice NOT-OD-25-083); and/or
- One or more data recipients listed in the request do not have a valid institutional email address or identifier.
Investigators should use Pitt emails in their login.gov accounts to ensure that the requesting institution information is consistent within the data request.
FEDERAL AGENCY ROUNDUP
Updates from federal agencies for the week of 05/26/2025
- DOE announced a new “Policy on Increasing Accountability, Identifying Wasteful Spending of Taxpayer Dollars.” The full memorandum can be found here.
- NIH released NOT-OD-25-114: Notice of Short-Term Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period. This NOT grants an “automatic extension of Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) eligibility. This extension addresses delays impacting grant application submissions, peer review, or award processing timelines between January 1, 2025, and May 31, 2025, and seeks to mitigate their effects on the biomedical research community.”
- NIH released the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) stipends, tuition/fees and other budgetary levels effective for fiscal year 2025. This notice (NOT-OD-25-105) supersedes NOT-OD-24-104.
- The U.S. District Court of Rhode Island issued a temporary injunction in favor of 23 states and the District of Columbia blocking the March 2025 HHS decision that, because the COVID-19 pandemic is over, numerous health programs and appropriations responsible for $11 billion of federal financial assistance were no longer necessary. The injunction can be viewed here.
Stay up-to-date and informed by visiting the Pitt Research Executive Orders and Federal Funding website.