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[From the NIH website]

Reminder: NIH Policy on Application Compliance

Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-095

Key Dates
Release Date: April 15, 2015 

Related Announcements
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Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Purpose

The purpose of this notice is to remind applicants, both investigators and grants office officials, that to be fair to all concerned the NIH needs to consistently apply standards for application compliance.

The Vilcek Foundation is seeking applicants for the 2016 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.  They are accepting applications from young, foreign-born researchers age 38 and under from now through June 15, 2015.  Three winners will each receive a $50,000 unrestricted cash prize and will be honored at an awards ceremony in New York City in April 2016.

Complete eligibility requirements and online application can be found on Vilcek.org. 

Congratulations to the following COM labs for receiving the Better Bio Awards from the Department of Biological Safety. These awards are given to labs for setting a shining example of lab housekeeping and maintanence. Estus Lab (Sanders Brown) Nelson Lab (Sanders Brown) Murphy Lab (Sanders Brown) Rangnekar Lab (Combs) Plattner Lab (Combs) Thibault Lab (Med Sci)

The UK Travel policy was updated in January. Changes included the following language: Failure to submit a valid cost comparison may result in your reimbursement being reduced to the historical lowest airfare in the market. Therefore, there is no longer a need to submit an exception request when there is not a valid cost comparison. Our Director of UK Travel Program has the ability to pull up historical fares and will make the determination on the amount to reimburse.

[from the NIH website]

Notice of Potential Delays to NIH Issuing Awards in May 2015

Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-088

Key Dates
Release Date:   April 9, 2015

Related Announcements
None    

Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Purpose

A Fayette County high school student has been named a finalist for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her work in a UK lab run by Dr. Greg Bix and Dr. Justin Fraser. Ishi Aron, a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, won first place in the Biomedical and Health Sciences division at the Kentucky State Science Fair on March 28.

We are pleased to announce that the SRAS is fully staffed.  

[From NIH website]

Publication of the Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement (Rev. 3/31/2015)

Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-087

What if a failed leukemia drug could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? A team at the University of Kentucky recently led an effort to investigate this hypothesis. Their results were published today in the journal, Human Molecular Genetics. The UK researchers, led by Steve Estus at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, study a genetic variant in a gene called CD33 that reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The Estus group recently published findings suggesting that this variant promotes production of a truncated form of the CD33 protein that lacks a putative functional domain.

Part of the submission requirements for NIH Shared Instrumentation and High End Instrumentation Grant Programs is an institutional letter of support.   This letter includes detailed supporting documentation and mulitple level approvals.  Therefore, the VPR office along with PDO are requesting notification now from researchers who may be considering the submission of this type of grant.  The proposals are due to NIH on May 29, 2015.  

Questions - Annette Evans at 257-1663.

Reminder: NIH and AHRQ Biosketch Requirements for Due Dates On or After May 25, 2015

Photos and contact information are now included on the SRAS website for several new staff that have joined us recently.    

Julie Elliott started as a Reconciler on October 1, 2014.  She has over 20 years of experience in insurance collections and mortgage banking.  She already has a regular group of departments she is supporting. 

The College of Medicine has sponsored a summer research program annually for medical students.

Sent on behalf of Brandy Nelson, University of Kentucky Biosafety Officer and Responsible Official:

[From the NIH Website]

[From the Office of the President - Eli Capilouto]

Dear Colleagues, 

OSPA Announcement

Kim Carter has recently accepted the positon of Executive Director, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration effective April 6, 2015.  Ms. Carter is presently the Associate Director of the Office of Sponsored Programs at Ohio State University.  She has a Masters of Public Administration with Certificate in Management of Nonprofit Organizations from the University Pittsburgh and a BA also from the University of Pittsburgh.  Ms. Carter is replacing Deborah Davis who is retiring after 40 years at UK.

eRA Information: New RPPR Error Message for Inclusion Enrollment Data
Released:  Friday, March 13, 2015 

When submitting a Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) that includes Inclusion Enrollment data, grantees may encounter a new error message. The new error message reads:

Section G. Special Reporting Requirements: (ID:   201320)

The University of Kentucky Center for Molecular Medicine through the Dean of the College of Medicine and in conjunction with the NIH/NIGMS funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant anticipates funding pilot grants in the amount of $50,000 per year for up to two years.  Research projects should fit into the general theme of the molecular basis of human disease. Three categories of grants will be considered: