Posts Tagged ‘New from the NIH’

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

The NIH has announced final revisions to the Conflict of Interest in Research regulations. The compliance date for the revised regulations is August 24, 2012. Over the next year, we will be working to revise our policies and procedures to reflect these new requirements. How will this affect you? What must be disclosed has changed significantly, and will include: all significant financial interests related to institutional responsibilities compensation or stock amounts greater than $5000 any … Read More

If you subscribe to NIH notices or read the NIH extramural news, you may have noticed that several federal agencies, including the NIH, have replaced ADOBE-FORMS-B1 with ADOBE-FORMS-B2. We’ve received word from Research Grants & Contracts that OHSU researchers still must use InfoEd to submit their grant applications and shouldn’t be downloading the new forms from grants.gov. InfoEd is not yet ready for the B2 forms, but they are working on an update that should … Read More

Now that it’s late May, we finally have some knowledge about the funding levels for NIH grants for FY2011. The bad news is that grant budgets are being reduced for this current year. The good news is that it’s not as awful as we thought it would be. With the exception of the National Cancer Institute, all non-competing renewals  will have a budget reduction to 1% below FY2010. Specifically: Non-modular research grants will be reduced … Read More

Beginning with the upcoming May 25 application deadline, NIH biosketch instructions will be modified to enable investigators to describe personal circumstances that may have reduced productivity or impacted transition to research independence, such as family care responsibilities, illness, disability, military service and other personal issues. (see NOT-OD-11-045) Peer reviewers and others use the biosketch to assess the qualifications and productivity of the personnel involved in the proposed project. With this modification, peer reviewers should have … Read More

NIH’s Deputy Director of Extramural Research, Sally Rockey, and Science have been abuzz about a new website, Healthresearchfunding.org, that’s been described as “the Match.com of funding organizations.” On the site, grants that have been peer reviewed but not funded have a second chance for funding from organizations like the American Cancer Society and the Alzheimer’s Association. On her blog, Dr. Rockey shares her thoughts on the new database: This approach seems very efficient. Not only … Read More

As institution with both a Primate Center and a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), we’ve been closely following the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) and creation of a new center, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Last week, the NIH released a statement called, “Separating Fact & Fiction:  News about the Proposed National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.” The statement addresses an article in the New York Times … Read More

As you may be aware, the NIH error correction window is being eliminated starting with the January 25th deadline. What does this mean for us? Starting with this deadline, you must submit your final NIH applications to Research Grants & Contracts (RGC, the pre-award office at OHSU) three business days before the due date. In other words, the final science, along with the rest of the application, must be submitted to RGC no later than … Read More

The NIH and Lasker Foundation have teamed up to create the Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program, an unprecedented “intramural-extramural” career development program for exceptional clinical researchers. This two-phase program will provide its participants with up to 11 years of funding, first as part of the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP), then as independent investigators at either the IRP or an extramural research institution. Scholars will also be invited to annual scientific meetings and other events … Read More

If you’re planning to submit an NIH Individual Career Development Award in the near future, please be aware that the NIH has imposed new page limits on the following sections of the application for due dates after January 7, 2011: The Mentoring Plan attachment will be limited to 6 pages. The Statements by Mentor, Co-Mentors, Contributors attachment will be limited to 6 pages. The Description of Institutional Environment attachment will be limited to 1 page. … Read More