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April 18, 2008
NIH Announces New Centralized Processing Center for Receipt of Grant Closeout Documents
The National Institutes of Health announced in the NIH Guide, Notice NOT-OD-08-061, a new business process and the creation of a centralized processing center for receiving closeout documents submitted for all NIH grants and cooperative agreements. This centralized office currently receives and processes reports submitted by regular U.S. mail, courier and overnight services, as well as by e-mail and fax. They also process information submitted electronically through the Closeout feature in the eRA Commons. NIH expects that this new centralized business process will improve efficiency and service to the grantee community.
Effective immediately, all non-financial closeout documents (such as the final progress report and HHS 568 Final Invention Statement and Certification) not submitted through the eRA Commons will be required to be submitted to the following address:
NIH Centralized Processing Center
6705 Rockledge Drive
RM 2207, MSC 7987
Bethesda, MD 20892 (for regular or US Postal Service Express mail)
Bethesda, MD 20817 (for other courier/express deliveries only)
E-mail: DeasCentralized@od.nih.gov
Fax: (301) 480-2304
NIH continues to strongly encourage use of the eRA Commons for online, electronic submission of all closeout documents and is committed to improving the eRA Commons Closeout feature with the ultimate plan to move towards eliminating paper submissions. When NIH is ready to take that step, it will be announced to the community through a separate Guide Notice. In the meantime, if grantees attempt to use the Commons Closeout feature and find the record has not been entered into a Closeout status yet by NIH, the centralized office noted above should be contacted. See NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-05-051 for more information on electronic submission of required closeout documents. The full notice may be found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-061.html.
UK Research Administration Training and Education (RATE) Program
The UK Research Administration Training and Education (RATE) program is a comprehensive look at administering research grants, contracts and other sponsored projects at the University. RATE starts with a basic overview of the research infrastructure and then proceeds into very detailed instruction on all aspects of research administration. The program will explain policies and procedures for the entire life cycle of a project from looking for funding, submitting a proposal, award management to the closeout of the project. RATE presenters will come from many different departments on campus to provide an in-depth analysis of their specific roles in the research administrative process.
The main emphasis of this program is to take information that is currently held only in a few central offices and disseminate to the staff members who are managing research projects at the department and college level. The program will provide not only information on the processes for administering research projects, but also the reasoning behind the process so that the department and college administrative staff can more efficiently manage their grants, better assist investigators in their area, and expedite the processing of requests and university forms through OSPA and SPA.
The RATE program will include two different types of classes, Primary and Special Topics. Participants must attend at least 15 classes to be eligible for the RATE Certificate, of those 15 classes, at least 9 should be Primary Classes. Once a participant has received credit for completing the required number of classes, they will be eligible to take the testing component that will require a minimum passing grade. Once a passing grade is achieved on the RATE exam, the successful participants will receive a certificate signifying their completion of the program. To find out when the classes are offered, and to register for classes, individuals should go to UK’s Training and Development Calendar at http://hr.uky.edu/TandD/calendar.php. Please contact Sean Scott in the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration at 7-9420 if you have questions about the program.
Primary Classes:
Class 1: Intro to the Research Infrastructure at UK
Class 2: In-depth: How to Prepare a Budget I
Class 3: In-depth; How to Prepare a Budget II
Class 4: Submitting a Proposal through OSPA
Class 5: Awards Receipt
Class 6: Cash Management
Class 7: Contracts and Agreements
Class 8: Sponsored Projects Accounting
Class 9: Subaward Management
Class 10: Cost Accounting Standards
Class 11: Awards Management I
Class 12: Awards Management II
Special Topic Classes:
Class 13: Proposal Development Office
Class 14: Conflict of Interest/UK Policy and Procedures
Class 15: Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer
Class 16: Human Clinical Trials
Class 17: IRB and IACUC policies and procedures
Class 18: NIH/Grants.gov Proposal Submissions and award management
Class 19: NSF/Grants.gov Proposal Submissions and award management
April 11, 2008
Workshop for Identifying Appropriate NIH Study Sections for Investigator-Initiated New Proposals - April 23
Researchers submitting proposals to NIH have the opportunity to include a cover letter that requests assignment to a specific study section. To facilitate this process, the Proposal Development Office (PDO) is offering a workshop that provides helpful hints on how to develop a strategy for identifying an appropriate review group and effectively conveying that request to the Division of Receipt and Referral in the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR). Information will be presented on the following topics:
- Selecting a specific CSR Integrated Review Group (IRG) and study section
- Conducting a keyword search of the CSR/IRG Study Section descriptions
- Searching the NIH database, CRISP, for projects similar to the one being proposed and noting the review group
- Searching the CRISP database using a specific study section as the criterion and comparing funded projects with the one being proposed
- Suggested format for cover letter
Participants will also have hands-on opportunity to conduct customized searches to identify potential study sections for proposals on topics of their choice.
The workshop will be held on Wednesday, April 23 from 9 – 10:30 a.m. in Room B108A, a computer classroom in the basement of the W. T. Young Library.
Seating is limited to 24 participants. Registration is required by 4 p.m. April 21. If you haven’t already enrolled, access the on-line registration form on PDO’s web page (http://www.research.uky.edu/pdo/workshop_information/workshop_calendar.htm) or contact Dee King (7-2861 or dking4@uky.edu).
“ACE Inhibitors: How Snake Venom Saves Lives” - May 1
The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series
Noon to 1 p.m.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Hospital Auditorium, HG611
Nancy J. Brown, M.D. , Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Scientist Development
Robert H. Williams Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Objectives:
- To illustrate the role for translational research in impacting human health.
- To review the mechanisms through which ACE inhibitors reduce cardiovascular mortality.
- To discuss potential new interventions resulting from mechanistic studies of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.
Lunch available at 11:30 a.m. Presentation begins at noon.
Please RSVP by 4.28.08 to Jessica Wehle (gcrc@email.uky.edu). If you require special physical arrangements to attend this meeting, please call 323-0598.
Sponsored by Dr. Jay A. Perman, M.D., Dean, College of Medicine and C. William Balke, M.D., Associate Provost for Clinical and Translational Science, and the Emery A. Wilson Lecture Series
April 4, 2008
NIH Public Access Policy
We alerted you earlier this year (see January 25 Grants Bulletin) of a new requirement from the National Institutes of Health. Manuscripts arising from NIH funding that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008, must be submitted to the NIH Manuscript Submission system. For more information see the NIH Public Access Policy (4-page pdf). If you have questions, please contact Deborah Davis, director of sponsored projects administration (257-8311, ddavs@uky.edu).
"Best Research Documentation Practices in a Technologically Advanced World" - April 17
Linda Rice, RN, CCRC, Director of Operations, UK Clinical Research Development and Operations Center (CR-DOC)
Thursday, April 17, 2008
HG611 (Hospital Auditorium)
Lunch 11:30 a.m., Presentation noon to 1 p.m.
Please call or e-mail the UK CRO office (323-8545 or ukcro@email.uky.edu) by Monday, April 14 to reserve your place.
Upon completion of the presentation attendees will be able to:
- Outline different strategies for documenting research activities in hospital medical record and study records.
- Outline the 3 areas available in the Sunrise Clinical Manager System (SCM) to identify a patient as a research participant.
- Gain an understanding of the SCM access process.
- Serve as a research advocate to help others within the Medical Center learn how to identify a patient as a research participant within the SCM system.
2008 Clinical and Translational Science Spring Conference - June 3
Lexington Civic Center, 3rd Floor
Lexington, Kentucky
Tuesday, June 3, 2008