Grants Bulletin

March 16, 2007

“Advances in Infectious Disease Vaccines” - April 5

Faculty and staff are invited to attend the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series:

Noon to 1 p.m.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Hospital Auditorium, HG611

Richard Greenberg, M.D., VA Staff Physician, Lexington VA Medical Center, Professor of Medicine and the Belinda Mason Carden and Paul Mason Professor of HIV/AIDS Research and Education, University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Objectives:

1. Participants will be aware of updated information on the shingles vaccine
2. Participants will become familiar with updated information on the HPV vaccine
3. Participants will gain an understanding of the current state of smallpox vaccines

Lunch available at 11:45 a.m. Presentation begins at noon.
Please RSVP by 4/02/07 to Jessica Wehle, gcrc@email.uky.edu.
If you require special physical arrangements to attend this meeting, please call 323-8150.

Sponsored by Dr. Jay A. Perman, M.D., Dean, College of Medicine, and C. William Balke, M.D., Sr. Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science

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March 2, 2007

Implementation of NIH Fiscal Policy for Non-Competing Grant Awards – FY 2007

Notice Number: NOT-OD-07-049

Release Date:  February 22, 2007

Issued by: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH has received an appropriation for the remainder of FY 2007 through P.L. 110-005: Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, FY 2007. This now allows NIH to fully implement the FY 2007 fiscal policies announced December 15, 2006 in Notice-OD-07-030. 

Non-competing Research Awards

To implement the FY 2007 fiscal guidance, non-competing research awards will be awarded at 97.1% of the FY 2007 committed level. Future year commitments also will be adjusted accordingly. Institutes and centers (ICs) will maintain the flexibility to supplement such non-competing awards on a case-by-case basis according to scientific and programmatic imperatives. However, such supplements will not be considered as part of the base for future budgetary adjustments. 

Non-competing awards previously issued in FY 2007 at reduced levels will be revised to restore funds to the level indicated above. This policy does not apply to Career Awards, SBIR/STTRs, and Ruth L. Kirschstein-National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowships & Institutional Training Grants.  

For other Notices applicable to FY 2007 funding, see also:

• Notice of Legislative Mandates, NOT-OD-07-050
• Salary Limitations on Grants, Cooperative Agreements and Contracts, NOT-OD-07-051
• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipend and Other Budgetary Levels Effective for Fiscal Year 2007, NOT-OD-07-052

Information on FY 2007 Fiscal Operations, including specific funding strategies for ICs is posted at:  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/financial/index.htm. 

NIH Salary Limitation on Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts

Every year since 1990 Congress has legislatively mandated a provision limiting the direct salary that an individual may receive under an NIH grant. For FY 2007, Public Law 110-005: Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 extends the legislative provisions provided in the FY 2006 Appropriations Act (Public Law 109-149) through the end of FY2007. Therefore the provision that restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay scale continues through FY2007. The Executive Level I annual salary rate was $183,500 for the period January 1 through December 31, 2006. Effective January 1, 2007, the Executive Level I salary level increased to $186,600.

Full announcement: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-051.html