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Through early support of promising investigators in fields ranging from lung cancer to Alzheimer's disease to pediatric heart disease, the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has seen great return on their investment in recent years in the area of biomedical imaging at UK. The growth through investment ratio in this area has been great, with the return in federally-funded grants greatly multiplying the initial investment by the CCTS in the investigators' work.
Dr. James DuBois, St. Louis University, was awarded a contract from the ORI RCR Resource Development Program to create an RCR casebook with case studies and role playing activities. ORI will be releasing the finished casebook shortly via the ORI website. To read an example case study, click here.
The Facilities and Administrative Cost rate utilized for industry funded clinical trial agreements is the off-campus research rate negotiated with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The federal government caps that rate for universities at 26%. An agreement has been issued to the University of Kentucky by DHHS with new rates that will be effective July 1, 2013. According to information submitted by the Office of Controller and Treasurer to DHHS to develop the new rates, the actual off-campus rate is 27.44%. The actual rate, ro
Sally Rockey, Deputy Director for Extramural Funding at NIH talks about percentile scoring of grant proposals on her blog. To read her comments on percentile scoring, click here.
NIH along with other government granting agencies is transitioning to updated electronic forms packages. The new packages are called FORMS-C and will be required for any submissions after September 25, 2013. NIH has provided detailed information regarding the changes to the forms. To read more, click here.
IMPORTANT REMINDER: The University’s policy, as instituted by the Vice President for Research in April 2012, mandates that eIAFs for sponsored research proposals be fully routed 3 business days prior to the sponsor’s proposal deadline. Anyone in an investigator role must provide their own certification. Chairs, Directors, and Deans can set up a delegate to provide the required certification if they won’t be available. Your CGO can provide assistance to make these arrangements, if needed.
The UK COM RO1 Consultant Review Program is a process that will facilitate a faculty member engaging an authoritative external consultant to provide an assessment of a complete, but not yet submitted, RO1 (or equivalent) application. Read more.
On May 8, 2013, NIH released its new Fiscal Policy for grant awards for its FY 2013. To information on the policy including changes from previous years, click here.
According to NIH grants policy, all grantee publications about research that are funded by NIH must include a specific acknowledgment of NIH grant support. A new web page on NIH funding acknowledgement provides grantees with useful guidance to meet the award requirements. The new web page can be found by clicking here.
The Provost Budget Office Grant Group collaborates with college, program, and central Units to provide tools which will enable departments to achieve operational and strategic goals through guidance on best practices with regards to pre- and post-award grants management. For more information, check out their website.
We’ve become aware that while the transition to RPPR is effective for all NIH continuing awards to be made July 1 or later (for all reports due beginning in May), both the eSNAP and RPPR options may be available in eRA Commons. PLEASE advise your faculty to select the RPPR option. They should not select eSNAP.
