Anticipated on or after May 25, 2025: New Requirements for National Institutes Health (NIH) Biosketch and Other Support Forms (also known as Common Forms). The NIH:
For details on how the OSTP National Science and Technology Council Research SubCommittee's framework for implementing National Security Presidential Memo-33 will impact Current and Pending (Other) Support and Biographical Sketch documentation (also known as Common Forms) across federal funding agencies including NIH, visit this UNC Office of Sponsored Programs site - https://osp.unc.edu/proposal/other-support-and-biosketch/
The current NIH biosketch format includes four major sections. The Contributions to Science section is a required section that may optionally include references and a link to your complete bibliography.
Details on New Components
1. Contributions to Science
2. URL to Complete List of Published Work (component of Contributions to Science section)
"Per NOT-OD-15-032, the new biosketch format allows applicants to include a link to a full list of their published work as found in a “publicly available digital database” such as My Bibliography. The link is optional.
NIH cautions reviewers against accessing URLs that may compromise their anonymity. The NIH prefers applicants use My Bibliography because the NIH can assure reviewers that their anonymity will be protected if they review publications at that site.
Use of a publicly available database other than My Bibliography is at the discretion of the applicant, but applicants should bear in mind that reviewers are unlikely to click on unknown links. These links must be accessible to the general public without registration and must not point to informational websites that may violate page limit rules (NOT-OD-11-080).
For these reasons, linking to a lab or researcher's site would be inappropriate."
For more instructions, a blank format page, and sample Biosketches, go to the NIH Biosketch page.
SciENcv is a tool designed to help researchers complete biosketches efficiently. This tool will link to and pull in biographical information from your eRA Commons account (or other sources) and publications from your NCBI My Bibliography account. An ORCID ID can be linked as well to provide a unique author identifier. SciENcv currently includes templates for the new NIH biosketch format as well as for the NSF biosketch format. SciENcv will support additional biosketch formats in the future.
Why should I use SciENcv?
To create a biosketch using SciENcv, follow these steps: