Grants Bulletin

April 24, 2012

Limited Submissions

• USDA – Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program – May 3
  
• HRSA – Rural Health System Analysis and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement – May 4
  
• USDA – National Clean Plant Network Request for Applications – May 8

To view these and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office site.

Now Enrolling For Clinical Research Coordinator 101 – May 23-24
This classroom-based training is designed for clinical research coordinators, clinical research associates or staff members who function in this capacity. The multi-session series provides basic information on coordinating clinical trials appropriate for entry-level positions or those new to the field. This training does not currently provide continuing education credit.

There is no fee for employees of University of Kentucky, but if you do register we ask that you attend the duration of the two-day course.

Register here by Friday, May 11: http://j.mp/I5wmCT

Confirmation will be sent to accepted attendees AFTER the May 11 registration deadline.

For questions regarding this course or registration, please contact:
Ryan Vicini
Staff Development Manager, UK CR-DOC
Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS)
859.323.8545
rlvici2@uky.edu

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April 18, 2012

Limited Submissions

• U.S. Department of State – Secretary’s War Widows Program - April 19
• Health Resources and Services Administration - National Support for Title V/Maternal and Child Health Oral Health Services Grant Program (HRSA-12-059) - April 23
• U.S. Department of State – Study of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders on Public Policy and Government Leadership - April 24
• U.S. Department of State – Media and Youth in the Middle East and North Africa Region - April 25
• U.S. Department of State – English Access Microscholarship Program - April 26
• U.S. Department of Justice - OVW Fiscal Year 2012 Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program - April 26
• The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation - Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program - April 30
• U.S. Department of State – Jóvenes en Acción Program - April 30
• U.S. Department of State – Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program and Youth Leadership Program with Belarus - May 1
• U.S. Department of State – Ngwang Choephel Fellows Program - May 3
• U.S. Department of Justice - Tribal Justice System Capacity Building Training and Technical Assistance Program FY 2012 Competitive Grant Announcement - May 4
• U.S. Department of State - Youth Leadership Program - May 7

To view these and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office site.

Human Research Protection Program Comprehensive Plan
Please note that a revised HRPP Comprehensive Plan has been released.

New PDO Funding Alerts in Health, Education, and Science

The Proposal Development Office (PDO) recently updated its PDO Funding Alert mailing list system, which provides direct email notification of funding opportunities as well as limited submissions requiring internal coordination.  The following mailing lists were added:
HEALTH:

• Blood/Hematology
• Cancer Prevention & Control
• Sports Medicine/Kinesiology
• Health Information Technology

EDUCATION:

• Reading/Literacy Education

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

• Atmospheric Science/Climate

Click on the link below to view all of our subject mailing lists and to subscribe, or contact us to modify your current subscriptions to more accurately reflect your interests.
PDO Funding Alerts:

Proposal Development Office
M.I. King Library
pdo@uky.edu
www.research.uky.edu/pdo

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April 11, 2012

Limited Submissions

• U.S. Department of Labor – Serving Juvenile Offenders in High-Poverty, High-Crime Communities – April 20
• U.S. Department of State – Iraqi Women's Democracy Initiative – April 20
• NIH/NCCAM - Centers of Excellence for Research on CAM – May 15

To view these and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office site.

CCTS 2012 Pilot Research Program Application Deadline Delayed
Due to the overwhelming numbers of “Letters of Intent” received for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science 2012 Pilot Research Program, the deadline for inviting applicants to submit a full application has been delayed. We will notify all applicants as soon as a notification date has been selected. If you have questions, please call Elodie Elayi at (859) 323-7939.

"The Avian Flu Controversy: Ethical, Scientific, and Policy Implications" - April 18

Research Ethics Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 18, Noon-1:00pm B-202-A Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building

Eric M. Meslin, PhD, Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, Medical and Molecular Genetics, Public Health, and Philosophy

Recently, two teams studying the H5N1 influenza virus discovered how to produce a version of the highly pathogenic avian flu, which is easily transmissible in mammals. The WHO asked the researchers to suspend publishing their data, fearing the data could be used to develop biological weapons. Dr. Meslin discusses the ethical, scientific, and policy implications of the controversy.

• For more background on the controversy, visit http://www.nature.com/news/updated-avian-flu-controversy-comes-to-roost-at-who-1.10055.
  
• For more information on Dr. Meslin, visit http://bioethics.iu.edu/people/meslin/.
• Lunch will be provided by the UK Program for Bioethics.
• Sponsored by the UK Program for Bioethics

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April 4, 2012

Limited Submissions

• Health Resources and Services Administration – Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Data Coordinating Center – Prospective applicants interested in this program should contact Dr. Alan Daugherty, Associate Dean for Research, College of Medicine, for information on the internal procedure and deadline. HRSA deadline: May 29.
• Health Resources and Services Administration - Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Resource Center – April 12
• U.S. Department of Labor – Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program – April 16
• U.S. Department of State – Youth Leadership Programs with Southeast Asia and with the Philippines – April 16
• Health Resources and Services Administration – Combating Autism Act Initiative: National Interdisciplinary Training Resource Center – April 17
• NIH/NHLBI- Core Clinical Centers for the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network, CTSN (UM1) – RFA-HL-13-017 – April 24
• Cancer Target Discovery and Development (CTDD) Network (U01) – RFA-CA-12-006 – April 30. Pre-Application Meeting: The NCI will hold a public pre-application teleconference for investigators planning to submit applications in response to this FOA on April 24 from 2:30 p.m. EST.
• Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award – May 14

To view these and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office site.

NIH Notice of Requirement for Electronic Submission of Just-in-Time Information and Related Business Process Changes Beginning April 20, 2012
Notice Number: NOT-OD-12-101

Purpose
Certain NIH programs and award mechanisms use Just-in-Time (JIT) procedures to enable specific elements of a grant application to be submitted later in the application process, following review when the application is still under consideration for funding. This procedure reduces the time to award while ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of information needed to award NIH grants. To reduce application confusion and to minimize requests from NIH staff for JIT submissions, NIH is revising its business processes so applicants will have better information on when JIT submissions are required, and to require electronic submission of JIT information through the eRA Commons as of April 20.

Policy
New Electronic Submission Policy: Applicants are required to submit their information using the JIT feature of the eRA Commons at least 60 days before the applicant’s proposed project period start date (or sooner if requested by the IC). If the requested JIT information is not submitted, funding may be delayed and the Project Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) and Signing Official may be contacted directly requesting prompt submission of timely information.

For information on the eRA Commons visit https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/index.jsp.

Revised JIT Business Processes
Beginning April 20, applications receiving an impact score of 40 or less will receive a standard notice and request for submitting JIT information. This level reflects NIH’s new Impact Scoring system and current tightened paylines, though it does not reflect any individual IC’s payline. Notices will be sent via e-mail from NIH eRA Commons to the Project Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) two weeks after release of the impact score indicating the importance of beginning the JIT process, particularly the need to obtain any necessary IRB and IACUC approvals. In the future, NIH will review the JIT notification trigger level to determine if additional adjustments are needed to improve the process.

For all applications, the eRA Commons JIT link will be opened and available for submission of JIT information within 24 hours after the impact score has been released. This supersedes NIH’s former business practice of only opening the JIT link for applications receiving impact scores within a certain range. Since the JIT link will be available for all applications, applicants should not rely on this as an indicator of the need to submit JIT information; instead they should rely on the JIT notification described above and any specific requests from NIH staff.

Reminder of Existing JIT Requirements

Several elements of an NIH grant application are not required at the time of submission. Rather, this information is requested by NIH staff later in the review cycle (i.e., Just-In-Time) to ensure that it is up-to-date. The following information is eligible for JIT submission:

• Current Other Support: Provide active support information for all individuals designated in an application as senior/key personnel—those devoting measurable effort to a project. Other support includes all financial resources, whether Federal, non-Federal, commercial or institutional, available in direct support of an individual’s research endeavors, including but not limited to research grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and/or institutional awards.Training awards, prizes or gifts are excluded. Sample format pages are available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/othersupport.doc and http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/othersupport.pdf, however, there is no specific form provided to report on “Current Other Support.” Effort devoted to projects must be measured in person-months.
  
• For all senior/key personnel, provide details on how you would adjust any budgetary, scientific, or effort overlap if this application is funded.
  
• For Career Development Award applications, information on all active support for the candidate, sponsor(s), co-sponsor(s), and Senior/Key Personnel may be requested by the awarding component prior to award.
  
• Certifications:
  
  1. IACUC Approval Date: If the proposed project involves research using live vertebrate animals, the verification date of IACUC approval along with any IACUC-imposed changes must be submitted. Pending or out-of-date approvals are not acceptable.
     
  2. IRB Approval Date: If the proposed project involves human subjects research, the certification date of IRB review and approval must be submitted. Pending or out-of-date approvals are not acceptable.
     
  3. Human Subjects Education: If the proposed project involves human subjects research, certification that any person identified as senior/key personnel involved in human subjects research has completed an education program in the protection of human subjects must be submitted.
     
  4. Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs): If the proposed project involves hESCs and the applicant did not identify an hESC line from the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry in the application, the line(s) may be submitted as an “Other Upload” file.
  5. Other Information Requested by the Awarding IC: Additional JIT information (i.e., revised budgets, changes to the human subjects, or vertebrate animal sections of the application) may be requested by NIH Institutes and/or Centers on a case-by-case basis. These should be submitted as an “Other Upload” file.

As a reminder, a notification request for JIT information is not a Notice of Award, nor is it an indicator of possible funding by the NIH. If you have any additional questions contact the Grants Management Specialist assigned to your application. Contact information for these individuals can be found in the eRA Commons Status system.

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