What is NIH doing to address the “15 page narrative limitation” problem?
The instructions encourage the applicant to create the research plan as a single document, separating into distinct pieces for separate attachments only at the very end. In this way, page limits and other formatting requirements can be easily monitored by the applicant. The page limit validation done be the system already accommodates anticipated white space created by separating the pieces–thus the language in the warning message seen by many of you already. If the applicant has stayed within the required page limits before separating the pieces, then this warning can be ignored and the application will proceed through the process.
