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It oversees activities related, but not limited to, high-profile digital platforms, grant compliance, peer review, communications with the extramural community, scientific misconduct, human subjects protection, and laboratory animal welfare.</p><h2>Overview </h2><p>The OER is an office within the NIH Office of the Director. OER supports the entire NIH extramural research community by providing policy, guidance, systems, and other support to the recipient community as well as to the 24 NIH Institutes and Centers that award grants. OER serves as a vital interface for the biomedical research community by guiding investigators and their institutions through the process of attaining grants funding and helping them understand and navigate through federal policies and procedures.</p><p>There are several <a href="/aboutoer/oer-offices">offices and divisions</a> within OER that each have their own responsibilities.</p><h2>Responsibilities</h2><ul><li>Provide authoritative resources for the corporate framework for all phases of NIH extramural research funding (e.g., eRA, NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts, NIH Data Book)</li><li><a href="/">Implement and inform</a> infrastructure, policies, processes, and procedures that enable the execution of NIH extramural research programs (e.g., Funding Opportunities, staff training, Loan Repayment Program, SBIR/STTR)</li><li><a href="/policy-and-compliance">Ensure the integrity of and compliance with</a> applicable laws, regulations, and policies that govern NIH extramural research funding. 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incentivizes early career researchers with support for innovative, high impact projects. </li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3>NIH-Wide Initiatives</h3> <ul> <li>Working collaboratively with leadership across the NIH to <a href="policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/peer-review/simplifying-review">simplify the peer review framework for research project grant applications</a>, aimed at focusing reviewers on the identification of the strongest, highest-impact research while mitigating the effect of reputational bias, and reducing reviewer burden.</li> <li>Leading the effort to implement <a href="https://seed.nih.gov/small-business-funding/small-business-program-basics/foreign-disclosure-and-risk-management">foreign disclosure and risk management</a> provisions of the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ183/PLAW-117publ183.pdf">SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) and STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) Extension Act of 2022</a>, requiring federal agencies to establish a due 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