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Other Support Training

Effective, October 1, 2025, and in accordance with , all faculty and researchers identified as  on an NIH proposal or award must complete training prior to submitting an Other Support document to NIH. This ensures that Senior/Key Personnel on NIH-funded projects "fully understand their responsibility to disclose all resources made available to the researcher in support of and/or related to all of their research endeavors, regardless of whether or not they have monetary value and regardless of whether they are based at the institution the researcher identifies for the current grant."

Training, including certification of completion, can be accessed through Dynamic Forms using .

For a refresher on NIH Policies on Other Support and on Policies related to Financial Conflicts of Interest and Foreign Components, please refer to .

Research Security Training

NIH implementation of the Research Security Training (RST) requirements outlined in the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 will be effective for applications submitted for due dates on or after May 25, 2026 (

CITI Research Security Training Module

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ employees who are named as on an NIH grant application can complete the Research Security Training (Combined Course) in CITI to meet the new training requirement. To access the training:

• Go to .
  • If you have a CITI account, enter "Â鶹¾«Ñ¡" in the search box, pick Â鶹¾«Ñ¡from the list of choices provided, then click "Continue to SSO Login/Instructions.
  • If you do not have a CITI account, click on the "Registration" link, then click "Select Your Organization Affiliation". Enter "Â鶹¾«Ñ¡" in the search box and select "Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ (SSO). Follow the instructions to register using your FlashLine credentials.
• Sign in with your FlashLine credentials. You will then see a page with "Welcome, <your name>" at the top, followed by a list of your courses.
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page to "Learner Tools for Â鶹¾«Ñ¡". Click "Add a Course".
• On the Select Curriculum page, select "Research Security" (last entry on the list), then click "Next".

• In the list of courses that appears, select the first option, "Research Security Training (Combined Course)". This condensed and combined single-module course is based on the four-module NSF Research Security Training. It takes approximately one hour to complete and has been designed to meet the NIH research security training requirement. 

  
• Click "Next" to return to the My Courses screen.**
• Find the Research Security Training module in the list of courses and click "Start Now" to begin the course. 
• Once training has been successfully completed in CITI, Sponsored Programs staff will certify on the cover page of your NIH proposal that the research security training requirement has been met. The training is valid for one year.

**In addition to the combined course, you may select any of the other options on this page. The second option, Research Security Training (NSF Course), is the original four-module training, which takes approximately four hours to complete. The third option is a Research Security Advanced Refresher of eight 20-30-minute modules offering more information on specific topics.