Authors: Deepika Bhatia, AVP, (RCRA) & Kimberly Eck, Sr. AVP, (SVPR)
SciENcv is an application in My NCBI that helps you create and manage documents in support of grant applications with participating agencies. In SciENcv you can document your education, employment, research activities, publications, honors, research grants, and other professional contributions.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv/
For NIH: Biosketches and Current and Pending Support for proposals and RPPRs submitted on or after May 25, 2025 must use the new Common Form and be produced using SciENcv. NSF has already implemented the use of SciENcv. Please see NOT-OD-24-163 for details.
Allow yourself ample time to transition to SciENcv. The process will require manual data entry and review of data that is imported (e.g. publications).
A step-by-step guide with screenshots details how to create an NIH biosketch and current and pending documents: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK154494/
The easiest way to populate your SciENcv biosketch is through an ORCID iD: https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/c.php?g=1052178&p=7640122
To check, you can go into SciENcv and initiate the creation of a biographical sketch. Then select ORCID as your external data source.
If you do not yet have an ORCID iD, go to this page for more details – https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/orcid/getid
An ORCID/record is a free account that creates a persistent identifier that will follow you throughout your career and allows you to gather all of your scholarly work in a single location. You can use it to add publications to your Biosketch that are not located in PubMed.
Check NIH’s FAQs here: https://grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common-forms-biographical-sketch-current-pending-support.htm?anchor=11952
Additional communications and resources will be communicated to the research community over the upcoming months.