Only an institution's Signing Officer or Administrative Official may obtain a Commons ID for each Principal Investigator. Contact your institution's Office of Sponsored Research to have the Signing Officer register you with NIH Commons. For questions about this process, please refer to the NIH Commons' FAQs.

The PI and SO must have their own Commons account. If the PI and SO is the same person, then two separate Commons accounts are needed. The PI must have a PI account and must also be affiliated in Commons with the applicant organization.