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Office of Research Administration

NIH Training Requirements for Faculty and Researchers

Effective May 25, 2026, principal investigators and individuals identified as senior/key personnel in NIH proposals must complete Research Security Training (DOR-2000) ("RST") consistent with Section 10634 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (“CHIPS Act”) within 12 months prior to proposal submission as per NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-26-017.

NIH Proposal Submission DateTraining Requirement
May 25, 2026 onwardsResearch Security Training (DOR-2000) (<1 hour)

Certifications of Compliance

For NIH proposals submitted on or after May 25, 2026:

  • NIH will collect individual senior/key persons' certifications at the time of the application submission through each uploaded senior/key persons' NIH Biosketch generated from SciENcv that includes the following certification language:
    • Research Security Training Requirement for Federal Award Personnel: In accordance with Section 10634 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (42 U.S.C. § 19234), each individual identified as a senior/key person must certify that they have completed the requisite research security training that meets the requirements specified in Item 2 of Important Notice No. 149 within 12 months prior to proposal submission.

  • Within the SeRA system any SU investigator’s real-time Research Security Training status can be viewed from their My Projects/My Investigator’s page under Research Profile.  

    SeRA My Investigators Research Profile Training
  • Additionally, within SeRA proposal transactions, i.e. SeRA PIFs and PDRFs, where the listed sponsor is a federal Research Security Training information is displayed for the PI and all Other Stanford Investigators on the Project Questions page within the Training region.  

    • NOTE: Within in-progress/in-development SeRA proposal transactions, i.e. PIFs and PDRFs, investigator RST data on the Project Questions page updates when the current SeRA transaction assignee next accesses/touches the given in-progress SeRA transaction.  That is to say, if a SeRA PDRF is assigned to person A and includes an investigator that has NOT already completed RST, they need to, and the investigator proceeds with completing their RST, the investigator will NOT see the RST data update within the given SeRA PDRF until person A who is the current assignee of the PDRF next accesses/touches the in-progress PDRF.  Moreover, within completed/closed SeRA proposal transactions, RST data does NOT update.   Again, RST completion data displays real-time and is visible to investigators and administrators through the investigator's My Projects/My Investigator’s page under Research Profile. 

  • Institutional Officials (OSR Contract and Grant Officers and SoM RMG Research Process Managers) will verify as part of NIH proposal reviews that all Stanford senior key persons listed within NIH applications have completed Research Security Training within 12 months from the training data listed in SeRA and certify to this institutionally at the time of application submission.

***If you are not seeing Research Security Training completion information accurately reflected in SeRA, submit a SERA ticket.***

References

NIH-OD-25-133: NIH Announces a New Policy Requirement to Train Senior/Key Personnel on Other Support Disclosure Requirements

NOT-OD-26-017: Research Security Training Requirements for NIH

 

NIH Training Requirements FAQs

Research Security Training (RST) completions are valid for 1 year/12 months.  Thus. if you are submitting an NIH proposal and the last time you completed RST was greater than 12 months ago, then yes, you will need to take RST again for your impending NIH proposal submission.

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