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March 27, 2009
Report of the ad hoc Committee on Animal Use Protocols
Dear Colleagues,
In response to genuine concern expressed by campus investigators and department chairs about the animal use protocol process, I asked an ad hoc faculty committee to evaluate that aspect of the animal care and use program and to make recommendation for improving it to better serve campus investigators.
The committee has completed its work and its report can be accessed here (pdf 581 kb).
I have accepted the committee’s three primary recommendations. First, the e-Sirius™ protocol submission and review interface will be replaced with a more familiar, easier to use document format, while the business functions of e-Sirius™ will be retained. The protocol form will be updated to remove unnecessary questions, improve the clarity of the questions and instructions, and to add examples and “boiler-plate” language for common procedures. There are some technical challenges involved transferring data from the protocol form into e-Sirius™, so the process will not occur instantaneously. We will keep you apprised on progress, but the new protocol form will be available over the summer. The second and third recommendations deal with creating a more collaborative relationship between investigators, the clinical veterinarians and IACUC members and providing greater consistency in animal use protocol review.
I want to thank the committee members for their dedication and hard work in undertaking this important task. As always, I value input from the campus community on ways to improve the animal care and use program.
James W. Tracy, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research
Limited Submission – U.S. Dept. of State – Afghanistan Elections Programming
Limited Submission – U.S. Dept. of Energy – Nuclear Energy University Programs – Infrastructure Support
To view these and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office's site.
KY EPSCoR Commitment Letter for FY09 DEPSCoR Funding
The KY EPSCoR office will provide a $100,000 cash match for each proposal submission for the FY 2009 DEPSCoR funding opportunity (deadline May 4, 2009). However, a letter of support is required with the application.
Please go to www.kyepscor.org for instructions on how to request a commitment letter from our office and more information on the DOD funding opportunity (including a one-page summary of important changes from previous years).
Feel free to contact me if you have additional questions.
Liz Knapp
Kentucky EPSCoR Program Manager
Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation
200 West Vine Street Suite 420
Lexington, KY 40507
(859)255-3613x245
lknapp@kstc.com
CCTS & CR-DOC – New Location in April – L104 Kentucky Clinic
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) is pleased to announce its relocation to a new home at L104 Kentucky Clinic. This is the former Internal Medicine/Executive Health Clinic just down the hall from the UK Pharmacy on the first floor of the Kentucky Clinic Building. Our new center location will permit consolidation of CCTS services, including those offered by the CCTS Clinical Research Development and Operations Center (CR-DOC).
During the week of April 6–10, 2009, each CR-DOC area will be closed for a short time to accommodate this move. Emergency phone numbers are provided below. If you do not require immediate assistance, please send an email to your intended recipient. PLEASE NOTE: All phone numbers for the CCTS and CR-DOC will remain the same after this move.
Monday, April 6:
CR-DOC Administration, Finance, & Regulatory
Leader Building Office Closed: Monday, April 6
L104 KY Clinic Office Open: Tuesday April 7
Calls to 333-4128. Access to internet and email will be minimal.
Tuesday, April 7:
CR-DOC Marketing/Recruitment & Staff Development
1101 Limestone Office Closed: Tuesday, April 7
L104 KY Clinic Office Open: Friday, April 10
Calls to 257-9168. Access to internet and email will be minimal.
Wednesday, April 8:
CR-DOC Grants Management
1101 Limestone Office Closed: Wednesday, April 8
L104 KY Clinic Office Open: Thursday April 9
Calls to 257-9168. Access to internet and email will be minimal.
Thursday April 9:
CR-DOC Research Development
MN 578 Medical Sciences Closed: Thursday, April 9
L104 KY Clinic Office Open: Friday, April 10
Calls to 257-9168. Access to internet and email will be minimal.
Thursday April 9:
CR-DOC Outpatient Clinic
C201 KY Clinic Closed: Thursday, April 9
L104 KY Clinic Open: Tuesday April 14 (normal operations)
Calls to 257-9168. Access to internet and email will be minimal.
We look forward to working with everyone in our new location.
C. William Balke, M.D.
Associate Provost
Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science
March 23, 2009
NIH Fiscal Policies for FY 09
The following NIH fiscal policies are instituted in FY 2009:
Non-Competing Research Awards: The FY 2009 appropriation allows NIH to support investments in research by funding research grants at the most recently committed levels. Non-competing awards previously issued in FY 2009 at reduced levels will be revised to restore funds to the level indicated above. (See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-002.html).
This policy does not apply to Career Awards, SBIR/STTRs, and Ruth L. Kirschstein-National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowships & Institutional Training Grants.
Competing Research Awards: Each NIH Institute and Center (IC) will manage its competing portfolio using funds that have not been committed for non-competing awards. Consistent with the FY 2009 appropriation, the FY 2008 average cost of competing grants is allowed to increase by 3 percent over FY 2008 when compared to similar policies. It is estimated this will allow ICs to support the NIH investigator pool with approximately 9,800 new and competing RPGs. The following guidelines will apply to competing research awards in FY 2009:
- Maintain the number of new investigators comparable to the average of the five most recent years as described at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-013.html.
- Continue to use The NIH Director's Innovator Awards within the Common Fund (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-003.html) and NIH Pathway to Independence Awards (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-036.html) as previously described.
- Continue to use the NIH Directors Bridge Award Program (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-068.html), which provides continued but limited bridge funding to meritorious investigators whose applications were close to the funding range of the relevant IC and have minimal other support. This program provides NIH with a flexible NIH-wide tool to help balance the grant cycling variation challenges and support other approaches to sustain established grantees and first time competing renewals. As in FY 2008, this program is designed to provide only one-year of continued but limited funding.
Each IC will establish fiscal policies consistent with these NIH-wide policies according to its specific scientific and programmatic imperatives. Additional information on FY2009 Fiscal Operations, including specific funding strategies for ICs will be posted at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/financial.
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA): NIH will support a 1 percent increase in all stipend levels.
Recovery Act Funding Opportunities
UK's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) website (www.research.uky.edu/arra) provides links, by federal agency, to information on how they plan to allocate ARRA funding and how they will monitor and report their actual spending. New additions include links to recovery information for 23 federal agencies and new NIH funding opportunities.
Limited Submission - CDC Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics
To view this and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office's site.
March 16, 2009
Recovery Act Funding Opportunities
To assist University of Kentucky employees in finding information related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), a new website (www.research.uky.edu/arra) will provide links, by federal agency, to information on how they plan to allocate ARRA funding and how they will monitor and report their actual spending. Please check back often as this information continues to roll out with application deadlines in April. New additions include links to recovery information for each NIH center and institute.
"Nutrition and Metabolomics: Bringing Personalized Diet and Health to Practice" - April 9
J. Bruce German, Ph.D., Professor and Chemist, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California-Davis
Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series
Noon – 1 p.m.
(Lunch available at 11:30 a.m.)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Hospital Auditorium, HG611
Objectives:
- To understand the mechanistic basis of the diversity of human responses to food.
- To determine how to assess the diversity of human metabolism and its disregulation due to diet.
- To recognize the structures and functions of components of human milk that have emerged through evolution and provide guidance to designing nourishing and protective foods.
Sponsored by C. William Balke, M.D., Associate Provost for Clinical and Translational Science, Jay A. Perman, M.D., Dean, College of Medicine and the Emery A. Wilson Lecture Series
March 6, 2009
UK's Overview of Recovery Act Funding Opportunities
To assist University of Kentucky employees in finding information related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), a new website (www.research.uky.edu/arra) will provide links, by federal agency, to information on how they plan to allocate ARRA funding and how they will monitor and report their actual spending. Please check back often as this information continues to roll out with application deadlines in April. You can access this site directly from the address above or by clicking on the "Recovery Funding" feature on the UK Research homepage (www.research.uky.edu).
Understanding Private Foundations Seminar - April 10
The University of Kentucky Foundation Relations Office of Development and the Proposal Development Office will host a seminar titled "Understanding Private Foundations" on Friday, April 10, 2009, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the W. T. Young Library Auditorium (coffee will be available).
The presenters will be: Laura Williams, Program Director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (journalism), and James L. Applegate, Senior Vice President for Program Development for the Lumina Foundation for Education (adult access to higher education).
Dr. Applegate previously served as Professor of Communication at the University of Kentucky. From 1984 until 1999 he was Chair of that Department and also served as University Senate Chair.
Ms. Williams and Dr. Applegate will provide an overview of grantmaking by their foundations, describe how foundations operate, and make suggestions on how faculty and universities can work with foundation funders. There will also be time for questions and discussion.
To reserve a space in the seminar, contact the Proposal Development Office (Dee King) at 257-2861 or visit http://www.research.uky.edu/pdo/workshop_information/workshop_calendar.htm.
March 2, 2009
“Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Model of Interdisciplinary Translational Investigation” - March 5
Dr. Fernando Martinez, Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical Director, Pulmonary Diagnostic Services, Co-Medical Director, Lung Transplantation, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Health Center
March 5, 2008
Noon to 1 p.m.
HG611 (Hospital Auditorium)
For more information go to www.ccts.uky.edu/DLS.
AOA Research Day Poster Session
1:30 to 3 p.m. in the BBSRB Atrium
For more information, please contact Dr. Charles Griffith at cgriff00@uky.edu.
Presented by the Center for Clinical & Translational Science, DDLS-Wilson Seminar Committee, & AOA Research Day Committe
“Assessing Consent Capacity in Clinical Research: New Directions” - March 19
Gregory Jicha, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
and
Robert Walker, MSW, LCSW, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, Center on Drug and Alcohol Research
Thursday, March 19, 2009
HG611 (Hospital Auditorium)
Lunch 11:30 a.m., Presentation Noon to 1 p.m.
Please call or e-mail the UK CR-DOC office by Monday, March 16, 2009, to reserve your place (323-8545 or crdoc@email.uky.edu).
Presented by the University of Kentucky Clinical Research Development and Operations Center (CR-DOC)
Upon completion of the presentation attendees will be able to:
- Understand the separate cognitive skills needed to successfully navigate the informed consent process as a research participant.
- Gain an awareness of cognitive impairments across clinical conditions other than those that have been traditionally seen as impaired.
- Appreciate the importance of seeing consent capacity on a continuum rather than a categorical variable.
- Understand the uses of a multidimensional model for assessing likelihood of consent capacity impairment in prospective research subjects.
- Gain familiarity with a few basic capacity assessment instruments for use in the research setting.