Author: Demetrice S. Bryant
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Notable Improvement in EPEX
In an effort to prevent issues occurring when a proposal is not saved before navigating away from the header page in EPEX (first page), the buttons “Go to Projects” and “Go to Budgets” will be greyed out and thus unavailable, until the proposal has been saved and a Proposal ID is generated, as seen below.…
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From the Office for Clinical Research
New Requirements for Enrolling Study Participants in ERMS!! As you know, each study team is responsible for entering all study enrollees into ERMS on the same day the patient signs the initial informed consent document. This is done for 2 reasons: Patient Safety: Entering subjects in ERMS triggers OCR staff to register subjects in PowerTrials, which triggers the…
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Cayuse Tips
Q. How do I add Emory employees to my proposal in Cayuse? A. If you are unable to add an Emory employee to a proposal in Cayuse, this person does not currently have a Professional Profile in Cayuse. Only those with Compass Grants access at the time that Cayuse went live were given a Professional…
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EPEX Tips
Q. If my proposal is denied do I have to re-enter all of the information and create a new proposal to route it again? A. No. If the proposal is accidentally denied or denied to allow corrections and has a status of “REF#”, once the necessary action has been taken, click Save and Route to…
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Internal Transfers for Cost Share on Sponsored Projects
The 9xxxx series of Account Codes will be used to transfer funds to fund the cost share from a sponsored project. The funds should be moved through the journal entry process from the grant cost share SmartKey to the departmental SmartKey designated for the cost share. The 9xxxx series is only allowed for the cost…
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Foundations as Bridge Funding
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has always been Emory University’s largest funding agency. But what happens when your largest funder of research dollars is threatened with budget cuts? We are all aware that Emory experienced dramatic growth over the past decade from the year 2000 in which funding surpassed $200 million to $539.7 million…
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EPEX Tips
What do I do if my PI is not listed in the PI ID lookup? This and other common questions can be found on the EPEX FAQ Page: EPEX FAQ What do I do if my Investigator’s department is not listed? The employee must have an active Employment Record to have a department available in…
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Grant Journal Entries
To ensure compliance with the University’s Cost Transfer Policy 7.19 and federal regulations, cost transfers should be done at the original charge date and not exceed three months, when submitting a journal entry and moving expenses on a grant or contract award. Therefore, when entering a Journal Entry for a PC Business Unit of GRANT,…
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Cayuse Tips
When trying to upload PDF attachments in Firefox, do you get the following error? “An error prevented the successful upload of the attachment: Uploaded attachment must be in PDF format. MIME type of binary is not allowed.” There are a handful of steps to fix this problem, which have been detailed here Please contact support…
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Tips for Internal Grants Transfers
What Account Codes should be used for Sponsored Grant internal transfers? If funding deficits on a sponsored grant, the expense should be moved through the journal entry process from the grant to a departmental fund. The Account Code used should reflect the underlying expense. (i.e. Supply Labs/Technical expense – 53300) If an Emory department is…