NIH Update

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• NIH Update
• FDP May 2007

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New OPERA Staff

• New to the Division of Grants Policy
• Dave Curren
• Pam Gilden
• New to the Division of Grant Compliance and
  Oversight
• John Burke

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New Notice of Award (NOA)

• Now a PDF attachment to e-mail (no longer e-mail
  text)
• Improves formatting and function (even long terms
  can now be accommodated)
• Text on page 1 (actual letter) easier to update.
  Currently
• Reminds grantees of obligation to cite NIH
  support in all publications and,
• Encourages submission of publications to PubMed
  Central
• New summary cumulative data provided when a
  separate supplement award has been issued
• New NameNotice of Award (NOA) instead of NGA
• Does your institution get these via e-mail? If
  not, become NOA e-mail enabled using the
  Commons Institutional Profile
• Expect to totally eliminate hard copy mailing of
  all NOAs in CY2007
• Notice OD-07-060 http//grants.nih.gov/grants/gu
  ide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-060.html

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New NIH Directors Bridge Award (R56)

• Provide continued, limited funding for new and
  established PIs who have submitted a competing
  renewal who just miss the nominal funding payline
  for the IC
• Continued funding will permit the PIs additional
  time to strengthen a resubmission application. 
• Cannot apply, cannot self-nominate! ICs nominate
  to NIH Office of the Director for final
  selection. 
• Criteria
• Must have lt 200,000 in other support (total
  costs) from all sources to fund research. 
• No A2s eligible
• Application submitted in FY2006 that are still
  being considered for funding FY2007 submissions
• Selectees will receive one-year of funding up to
  333,000 DC applicable FA
• Notice OD-07-056 http//grants.nih.gov/grants/gu
  ide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-056.html

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NIH Ranking Tables Replaced with New Web-Based
Tool

• Ranking tables have been replaced with a
  Web-based tool that allows grantees to determine
  the dollars awarded to any one organization or
  department.
• This change comes in part from responses received
  from the grantee community that suggested that
  the current ranking tables were not necessary
  (see NIH Guide Notice Request for Information on
  the Plan to Recognize Multiple Principal
  Investigators on NIH Grants) and in part by the
  establishment of Multiple Investigator Awards
  (see NIH Guide notice Establishment of Multiple
  Principal Investigator Awards for the Support of
  Team Science Projects) making the total dollar
  amounts of funds received by individual
  departments impractical.
• http//grants.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/FindOrg.
  cfm

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NIH Targeted Site Reviews Financial Conflict
of Interest (FCOI)

• A new initiative to determine whether grantee
  institutions have
• Fully implemented the FCOI regulations as they
  pertain to grants (42 CFR Part 50 Subpart F), and
• Complied with reporting requirements
• Eighteen site reviews completed in FY 2006
• Observations from NIHs FY2006 Targeted Site
  Reviews on Financial Conflict of Interest have
  been posted on the OER Conflict of Interest page
  http//grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coi/index.htm
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• Guide Notice http//grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n
  otice-files/NOT-OD-07-048.html

FCOI questions for NIH? FCOIcompliance_at_mail.nih
.gov
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FCOI Summary of Reporting Requirements
http//grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NO
T-OD-05-013.html

• At the time of application Investigators must
  submit significant financial interests to the
  institution
• Prior to the expenditure of funds The
  institution must report a financial conflict of
  interest to the NIH and assure that it has been
  managed, reduced, or eliminated
• FCOI identified after the initial report The
  institution must report within 60 days of
  identification and assure that it has been
  managed, reduced, or eliminated
• (Note All reports should be sent to the
  funding ICs CGMO)

http//grants.nih.gov/grants/stafflist_gmos.htm
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NIH Policy on Allowable Costs for Grant
Activities Involving Animals when Terms and
Conditions are Not Upheld

• OMB Cost Principles the NIH Grants Policy
  Statement (NIHGPS) do not permit charges to grant
  awards for the conduct of animal activities
  during periods of time that the terms and
  conditions of the NIHGPS are not upheld. 
  Specific situations under which charges are not
  allowable are
• The conduct of animal activities in the absence
  of a valid Assurance on file with OLAW.
• The conduct of animal activities in the absence
  of valid IACUC approval of the activity.  Absence
  of IACUC approval includes failure to obtain
  IACUC approval, expiration, or suspension of
  IACUC approval. 
• Institutions are required to report such
  situations to the Institute/Center (IC)
  supporting the award.
• NIH expects grantees to continue to maintain and
  care for animals during the periods described
  above.
• Funding components may allow expenditure of NIH
  grant funds for maintenance and care of animals
  on a case-by-case basis.

Notice Published 1/26/2007 http//grants.nih.gov
/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-044.html
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NIH eRA

• NIH Electronic Research Administration (eRA)
• Continuing to service HHS partners
• Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Food Drug Administration (FDA)
• Substance Abuse Mental Health Services
  Administration (SAMHSA)
• New Partner - Veterans Health Administration
  (VA) (launching pilot summer 2007)

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NIH eSubmission Status

• Onward Upward NIH eSubmission
• Approximately 80 of all NIH competing grant
  applications are now electronic.
• Over 40,000 unique electronic grant applications
  processed.

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Move to Grants.gov Adobe Forms

• PureEdge to Adobe
• Working closely with Grants.gov on plan to move
  to Adobe forms that
• will be least disruptive to applicants
• can be communicated clearly
• confirms form stability prior to migrating
  hundreds of active announcements
• Adobe version of full set of SF424 (RR) forms
  not yet released for testing

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NIH eSubmission Transition Timeline Update

• Fellowship, Career and Training Grants
• Expected to go electronic mid-2008
• Final transition dates dependent on Grants.gov
  development timeline

• Complex Mechanisms
• Transition of complex grant programs still on
  hold
• NIH and applicant organizations will need to
  maintain dual systems to accommodate paper and
  electronic processes.

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Commons Changes

• PIs can now delegate authority to view
  errors/warnings and application image in Commons
• Changes to Institutional Profile
  Assurances/Certifications
• Will require SOs to update Institutional Profile
  before any eSNAP progress reports can be
  submitted
• eSNAP now current with PHS 2590
• Measuring effort now reflected in person months
  rather than effort
• PI assurances new PI assurance report
  institutions can use to document PI sign-off.
  Updated assurance language used in sign-off
  process
• Designated areas to document changes in Select
  Agents Multiple PI have been added
• MoreSee NIH Guide Notice
  NOT-OD-07-064