An Update on Modernizing the NIH Grants and Funding Site

NIH has published an update on its effort to modernize the Grants and Funding site, saying the page is becoming the central place for researchers to find funding policies, programs and activity information.

The April 7 update says NIH has already folded in information on research training, loan repayment, scientific data sharing, public access and the NIH Extramural Nexus from stand-alone sites. NIH also says it has launched Highlighted Topics and new ICO Profile pages to make it easier to find mission statements, interest areas, funding opportunities, funding policies and financial management plans.

The agency says it has also deployed the Explore NIH Grant Opportunities tool to help users locate opportunities posted on Grants.gov. NIH says it will keep migrating funding-related information from across NIH websites into the central Grants and Funding site and expand the ICO Profile pages further in 2026.

A related NIH page says Grants.gov became the single official source for NIH grant and cooperative agreement funding opportunities in fiscal year 2026, and that the NIH Guide no longer posts NOFOs.

The update is not a major policy shift, but it matters for researchers and administrators who rely on NIH websites to track opportunities, rules and compliance information. NIH is signaling that the central site will increasingly be the main entry point for funding-related information.