Notices, Statements and Reports

Find related notices, policy references, statements, reports and other resources from NIH, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Department of Justice, and others.

Related Guide Notices 

• NOT-OD-139:Implementation of the NIH SBIR and STTR Foreign Disclosure Pre-award and Post-award Requirements
• NOT-OD-22-210: Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) and Other Support: Reminders
• NOT-OD-22-044: Maintaining Security and Confidentiality in NIH Peer Review: Rules, Responsibilities and Possible Consequences
• NOT-OD-19-114: Reminders of NIH Policies on Other Support and Policies Related to Financial Conflicts of Interest and Foreign Components
• NOT-OD-18-160: Financial Conflict of Interest: Investigator Disclosures of Foreign Financial Interests
• NOT-OD-18-115: Maintaining Integrity in NIH Peer Review: Responsibilities and Consequences

Selected NIH Grants Policy Statement Sections of Interest

• 2.5.1: Other Support and Just-in-Time
• 8.1: Changes in Project and Budget
• 8.1.2: Prior Approval Requirements
• 8.5: Specific Award Conditions and Remedies for Noncompliance
• 2.3.12: Protecting Sensitive Data and Information
• 4.1.10: Financial Conflict of Interest

NIH Statements and Reports

NIH leadership statements, blogs, related articles, and other references about NIH's continuing commitment to protecting NIH-supported innovation.

• February 15, 2024 Dr. Michael Lauer’s Testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing on Examining Federal Science Agency Actions to Secure the U.S. Science and Technology Enterprise
• May 25, 2023 Safeguarding Integrity While Enabling Collaborations: Not “Either-Or” but “Both-And”
• May 22, 2023 NIH Foreign Interference: General Principles, Case Studies, Publicly Available Information on Specific Cases, and Oversight Reports
• April 26, 2023 Department of Justice Statement: Former Harvard University Professor Sentenced for Lying About His Affiliation with Wuhan University of Technology; China’s Thousand Talents Program; and Filing False Tax Returns
• Brief Summary of NIH Foreign Interference Cases (as of November 16, 2023)
• July 30, 2021 Foreign Interference in National Institutes of Health Funding and Grant Making Processes: A Summary of Findings From 2016 to 2021
• April 22, 2021 Dr. Michael Lauer’s Testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Hearing on Protecting U.S. Biomedical Research: Efforts to Prevent Undue Foreign Influence
• July 8, 2020 NIH Open Mike Blog: Addressing Foreign Interference and Associated Risks to the Integrity of Biomedical Research, and How You Can Help
• June 12, 2020 Advisory Committee to the NIH Director update on Foreign Influences on Research Integrity
• July 11, 2019 NIH Open Mike Blog: Clarifying Long-Standing NIH Policies on Disclosing Other Support
• March 22, 2019 Science journal letter from NIH leaders addressing concerns of Chinese American biomedical professional societies
• December 13, 2018 Report and Presentation from the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director Working Group on Foreign Influences on Research Integrity
• November 15, 2018 NIH Open Mike Blog: Working Together to Protect the Integrity of NIH-funded Research
• August 23, 2018 NIH Director's Statement on the Protection of the Integrity of Biomedical Research in the United States
• December 22, 2017 NIH Open Mike Blog: Assuring the Integrity of Peer Review

Other Resources

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

• Blog - Guidance for U.S. Scientific Research Security that Preserves International Collaboration
• Guidance for Implementing National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33) on National Security Strategy for United States Supported Research and Development
• Presidential Memorandum on U.S. Government-Supported Research and Development National Security Policy and related Fact Sheet
• Recommended Practices for Strengthening the Security and Integrity of America’s Science and Technology Research Enterprise (PDF)
• Enhancing the Security and Integrity of America's Research Enterprise (PDF)
• Letter to the U.S. Research Community (PDF)
• Federal Register: Notice of request for information (RFI) on the American research environment
• National Security Strategy for the United States of America

National Science Foundation

• Research Security website (see additional resources towards the bottom of the page)
• JASON Safeguarding the Research Enterprise (PDF)
• Interactive Online Research Security Training Modules
• JASON Report: Fundamental Research Security (PDF)

Other U.S. Governmental and International Activities

• G7 Best Practices for Secure and Open Research
• Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing: Securing the U.S. Research Enterprise from China's Talent Recruitment Plans (Hearing and Reports)

Non-Governmental Partners

• Center for Strategic and International Studies Report on America's Challenges to China's National Talent Programs
• Hoover Institution Report: China's Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance
• National Bureau of Asian Research Commission Report on the Theft of American Intellectual Property
• American Association of Universities and American Public and Land Grant Universities Survey (PDF)

Department of Justice Announcements

• Cleveland Clinic to Pay Over $7 Million to Settle Allegations of Undisclosed Foreign Sources of Funding on NIH Grant Applications and Reports
• Harvard University Professor Convicted of Making False Statements and Tax Offenses
• Department Of Justice Reaches Million-Dollar Settlement With Van Andel Research Institute To Resolve Allegations Of Undisclosed Foreign Ties To NIH Grants
• University Researcher Pleads Guilty to Lying on Grant Applications to Develop Scientific Expertise for China
• Hospital Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets, Sell Them in China
• University Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Lying on Grant Applications to Develop Scientific Expertise for China
• Former Emory University Professor and Chinese “Thousand Talents” Participant Convicted and Sentenced for Filing a False Tax Return
• Department Of Justice Reaches $5.5 Million Settlement With Van Andel Research Institute To Resolve Allegations Of Undisclosed Chinese Grants To Two Researchers