Writedit at Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship notes that the new short NIH application format is out. Applications turned in on January 25, 2010, or later, will have a new format and a shorter page limit and a. Writedit lists the major changes in her post, and those include a one-page introduction, a six or 12-page research strategy section, a biosketch limited to 15 publications, among others. DrugMonkey also goes over the new format. "I'll be honest with you DearReader, I have not really considered very carefully how I am going to approach my grants under the new page limits. I've written 15 pagers before but those were just scale-downs of the usual 25 page description of the research plan," he writes.