Author: Sarah Long
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NIH eRA Commons Enhancements – Additional Prior Approval Requests
Effective March 2, 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has implemented the ability to electronically submit two additional types of prior approval requests via the eRA Commons system: Request for No-cost Extension (NCE) which requires NIH prior approval; Request for Change of PD/PI These requests are in addition to the original features of the…
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Interim Guidance on Salary Limitation for Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Issued by National Institute of Health Since 1990, Congress has legislatively mandated a limitation on direct salary for individuals under NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards (referred to here as a grant). The mandate appears in the annual appropriation act that provides authority for NIH to incur obligations for a given Fiscal Year (FY). At…
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Notifications From NIH Regarding 2017 Funding
NIH has published additional information regarding FY17 funding. The “Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017” signed by President Obama on December 10, 2016 continues government operations through April 28, 2017 at 99.8099 percent of the FY2016 enacted level. Consistent with past NIH practices, the NIH will issue non-competing research grant awards at a…
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2017 NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration
The National Institutes of Health is hosting the 2017 Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration in New Orleans on May 3-5 and in Baltimore, Maryland, Oct. 25-27, 2017. These seminars offer a comprehensive program including such topics as fundamentals of the NIH, compliance, peer review, grant writing for success, pre-award and post-award issues for administrators and investigators, animal…
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NSF SBIR Grants – Conflict of Interest
As reported in June 2016 newsletter, NSF updated their SBIR Program Phase I instructions: “No person who is an equity holder, employee, or officer of the proposing small business may be paid through a subaward budget unless an exception is recommended by the Program Director and approved by the Division Director for the Division of…
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Annual Certifications – Significant Financial Interests
The 2016 Annual Certifications are now available for completion in the eCOI system (https://ecoi.emory.edu). All faculty who are engaged in research must complete the Annual Certification for 2016 by August 31, 2017. Faculty can go to the COI homepage for instructions to complete this report (http://coi.emory.edu/eCOI/index.html ). Research Administrators are advised that this is a good…
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Update on Status of Award Setups
Colleagues: As you are aware, in late January Finance Grants and Contracts (FGC) encountered a major issue in processing roughly 500 award setups that were in the que . Given that typically a block of this size could take 2-3 months to set up in the system we quickly realized that would create a significant financial…
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The Common Rule is Revised – but under temporary moratorium
DHHS’s revised “Common Rule” governing human subjects research was finally published, and will become effective January 19, 2018 (except for the single-IRB requirement for cooperative research, which is two years later). However, there is a 60 day moratorium in effect at the moment. For summaries of the very significant changes (including removal of continuing review…