New from the NIH

Watch this short video to learn what’s new with NIH RePORT, a database of currently funded NIH projects and other resources on NIH programs. NIH is continually working to make this website as user-friendly as possible so that you can locate strategic plans for specific disease areas, search for collaborators, and find out which study section is reviewings proposals similar to yours.

This year’s NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration are being held April 16-18, 2012 in Indianapolis, IN, and June 20-22, 2012 in Washington, DC. (As you may recall, one of these conferences was held in Portland back in 2010.) Both new and seasoned administrators, researchers, students, and grant writers are invited to attend—although many sessions are designed for individuals who are new to NIH grants. Sample topics for this year include: After … Read More

If you subscribe to the NIH RSS feed, you may have noticed that starting this week, administrative supplements are being communicated in the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) format, not in the traditional NIH notice format. In conjunction with the FOA format change, the NIH has begun accepting administrative supplements electronically. As originally described in NOT-OD-12-024, if the activity code of your parent award requires electronic submission, you may now submit your administrative supplement requests online, … Read More

Join us on Tuesday, February 28 for a “nuts and bolts” guide to the Salary Cap as it applies to federal grant management at OHSU. This advanced level Research Administration Training & Education (RATE) course covers the history and regulations, including the December 2011 changes, and translates those into practical applications of the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Salary Cap, specifically as it relates to salary distribution, cost sharing and certifying effort. This course is … Read More

Concerned about the NIH reduction in the salary cap?  What about the cost of living increase limits? To see how these new policies will affect you personally or your research unit, we invite you to attend a special workshop on February 6 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Old Library Auditorium. This workshop will  offer guidance in preparing and managing grant budgets in light of these federal policy changes. The workshop will be led … Read More

Faculty Forum on NIH Conflict of Interest – February 7, 1 to 2 p.m., Vollum M1441 Don’t forget–there’s a forum for anyone concerned about the new NIH rules for reporting financial conflicts of interest. Please join Kara Drolet, Mark Slifka, and the OHSU Research Integrity Office on February 7 at 1 p.m. for a forum to discuss what these rules mean and how OHSU should respond to them. The Research Integrity Office is sorting out the … Read More

Faculty Forum on NIH Conflict of Interest – February 7, 1 to 2 p.m., Vollum M1441 Concerned about the new NIH rules for reporting financial conflicts of interest? Worried about the reporting threshold for travel? Wondering to what extent such rules will affect processes such as peer review? Please join Kara Drolet, Mark Slifka, and the OHSU Research Integrity Office on February 7 at 1 p.m. for a forum to discuss what these rules mean and … Read More

A year after we first heard about the proposed creation of a new translational institute, Congress and President Obama have officially established the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The purpose of NCATS, with a budget of $575 million, will be to “re-engineer” the way we translate basic science into drugs, diagnostics, and devices. As anticipated, funding for NCATS will be reallocated from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), an institute that funds … Read More

During Integrity Week last May, we told you about the new Conflict of Interest (CoI) Disclosure System which will streamline all CoI disclosures into one form to be completed annually, housed in Big Brain.  We were ready to roll the new system out this summer when the NIH revised their regulations regarding conflict of interest in research. These changes mean we have to update our system to accommodate the revised requirements. The planned release date … Read More

You may remember that the New York Times crowd-sourced the budget deficit last year. Now NIH is doing something similar: asking the research community to come up with ideas to fund science in these fiscally challenging times. Should we keep going as we always have and fund the top percentile only? Or are there other ways to spread dollars around while still maintaining excellent science? Should we reduce the amount of awards? Limit PI salaries? … Read More