Research Affairs: Researcher's Alert for September 11, 2015 http://myllu.llu.edu/syncall/communityhome/?communityId=6088 en-us Wed, 01 May 2024 11:38:24 -0700 SyncAll RSS 1.0 6088:22734 <![CDATA[September 15 Lunch & Learn Seminar: Pharmaceutical Drug Development Process]]> JR Krausz Pharmaceutical Drug Development Process

Research Affairs would like to invite you to the September 15 Lunch & Learn Seminar:

The Drug Development Process is fascinating. Come learn how the pieces fit together, for example, how the role of the clinical trial investigator is part of a much larger picture.  Anyone involved in clinical trials that focus on drug safety or efficacy will find this subject matter especially useful. 

The seminar will be held in the Research Affairs main conference room from 12-1pm. Physicians attending this session will earn CME. 

You must register to receive credit and a healthy lunch. Seating is limited.

 Please click link   Register

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:38:33 -0700 6088:22983 <![CDATA[New Funding Opportunities]]> Cindy Dickson Here are new funding opportunities that may be of interest to our research community.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting applications that address specific challenges defined in the grant programs below. For details and application instructions, please visit the new Grand Challenges website. Please note that descriptions of the challenges will soon be available on the website in Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

1) Grand Challenges Explorations is seeking innovative global health and development solutions and is now accepting proposals for its latest application round. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations, and for-profit companies. Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.

Proposals are being accepted online until November 11, 2015 for the following challenges: 

2) New Interventions for Global Health: Vaccine Manufacturing. This challenge focuses on innovations in vaccine manufacturing platforms designed to lower production cost for vaccines that target diseases of great global burden and that are among the most costly to produce with current technologies.

Letters of Intent will be accepted until November 5, 2015.

3) In addition, the African Academy of Sciences and the New Partnership for African Development have launched Grand Challenges Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. This program joins others within the Grand Challenges family of grant programs supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners. Grand Challenges Africa will build on the global success of Grand Challenges programs in India, Brazil, and South Africa, as well as the strong base of Africa Grand Challenges grantees already funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and USAID.

For additional information:
www.grandchallenges.org

 

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Award Competition

Pre-proposals are being sought from junior physician-scientist faculty conducting clinical research in any disease area. It is recommended that applicants have significant research experience and strong publication records consistent with the rank of assistant professor. 

The Clinical Scientist Development Award does not require institutional nomination. 
This competition employs a two-stage process.

 

Pre-proposals will be reviewed and up to 50 applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal. 


In keeping with the wishes expressed in Doris Duke's will, experiments that use animals or primary tissues derived from animals will not be supported by this program.

For complete details, visit the (right click-open hyperlink)
Clinical Scientist Development Award web page.

Application Deadlines

Pre-Proposals Due:                              October 30, 2015
Invitation to Submit Full Proposal:    December 22, 2015
Full Proposals Due:                             February 23, 2016
Award Start Date:                             July 1, 2016

 

American Heart Association Cardiovascular Genome-Phenome Study (CVGPS)

New CVGPS funding opportunities will be announced soon!

The Cardiovascular Genome-Phenome Study (CVGPS) is a collaborative effort, spearheaded by the American Heart Association (AHA), to accelerate the future of cardiovascular medicine. CVGPS combines the power of long-term population studies with the precision of molecular analysis to unravel key distinctions between and within subgroups of patients. The discoveries it generates will point the way toward better-targeted, safer, and more effective treatments, based on a deeper understanding of patients’ characteristics, including e.g. risk profiles and therapeutic needs.

For more information:

http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/CardiovascularGenomePhenomeStudyCVGPS/AHA-Cardiovascular-Genome-Phenome-Study-CVGPS_UCM_461668_SubHomePage.jsp


Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)

All pre-applications must be submitted electronically to the Electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) https://ebrap.org. Full applications must be submitted electronically to the Grants.gov website http://grants.gov.

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Autism Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Breast Cancer Research Program

Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16) Defense Medical Research and Development Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Epilepsy Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Gulf War Illness Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Lung Cancer Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Military Burn Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Multiple Sclerosis Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Peer Reviewed Alzheimer's Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Prostate Cancer Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Psychological Health/Traumatic Brain Injury (PH/TBI) Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Reconstructive Transplant Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Spinal Cord Injury Research Program

]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:57:35 -0700 6088:22984 <![CDATA[NIH Transition to Payment Management System (PMS) Subaccounts]]> Aleta Savage NIH Transition to Payment Management System (PMS) Subaccounts

Historically, all NIH funds awarded to LLU are in one pooled account managed by NIH.  LLU draws down against this account and receives income as expenses are accrued. 

As of October 1, 2015, NIH will use a subaccount (not the pooled account) for each grant awarded.

What does this mean?

NIH will transition awards currently in the pooled account to subaccounts between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016.

How will this be done?

  • NIH will effectively break the single competitive segment into two shorter "administrative segments." 
  • The project period end date will be revised to the existing budget period end date.
  • A final Federal Financial Report (FFR) is due within 90 days. 
  • All new and non-competing continuation awards issued between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016 will have a new NIH award number. 

How will my LLU projects be affected?

  • A new Banner fund number (6xxxxx) will be created for awards issued between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016 and existing funds will be closed out.
  • FFRs are to be submitted and funds carried over to the new award, as applicable.
  • NIH-funded subcontracts issued to LLU will be invoiced and closed out as of the current contract end date.

Note: Progress Report submission and review dates will not change.

RAFM staff will contact you as awards are issued and if/when any action is required. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Research Affairs Financial Management

(909) 558-4589 or ext. 44589 · rafm@llu.edu

For further information:

NOT-OD-14-103: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-14-103.html

FAQs: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/payment/faqs.htm

 

]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:06:27 -0700 6088:22985 <![CDATA[September NIH eSubmission Items of Interest]]> Sheri Cummins NIH eSubmission Items of Interest – September 1, 2015

Where did the summer go?! I no longer have small children in my house (except when my grandson visits). Yet, I can certainly tell it’s back to school time. Temperatures are dropping. Days are getting shorter. Stores are stripped clean of, well, just about everything except Christmas decorations. And, of course, NIH is in full swing planning for grant administration changes for next year.

 

PHS Form Use Beyond Expiration Date

Have you ever noticed that potato rolls still taste fresh well after the date on the package? Well, perhaps we shouldn’t dwell on that thought. The point I actually want to make is that lots of things are still good after the date we stamp on them – even grant application forms. Some of you may have noticed our agency-specific (PHS) forms expired yesterday.

At least every three years, we are required to reassess our data collection needs, make any needed adjustments, and submit a data collection clearance request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). We are currently working through that process. Once we have OMB approval, we’ll issue notices in the NIH Guide for Grants & Contracts to tell you more about our pending changes and our implementation plans. In the meantime, continue to use the  current forms - despite the August 31, 2015 expiration date (NOT-OD-15-146). We’ll get fresh forms out to you as soon as we can (yes, “FORMS-D” is in our future). For now, the PHS forms are fresh enough.

 

It’s Time to Simplify Our Instructions

Recently I was explaining to a new team member our hierarchy of instructions. The conversation went something like this…

We have three application guides (general, small business and individual fellowship) and a separate supplemental instruction document that applies to all three. The general application guide has basic instructions for research grants with special sections for specific programs (training, career development, and multi-project) that augment the basic instructions. Our funding opportunity announcements have additional opportunity-specific instructions that supersede the application guides. We issue notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts when we change policies or need to provide corrections to instructions. The guide notices supersede and/or clarify the funding opportunity announcement instructions.

…The expression on her face at the end of my explanation is hard to describe, but my basset hound looks at me the same way when I tell her not to bark at the cats. It’s an “are you serious right now?” look.

Our current application guide practices have worked for many years – they are functional, but certainly not optimal. If you’d like to help us improve our approach to instructions, we’d love to hear from you. Simply respond to our Request for Information: Strategies for Simplifying NIH’s Grant Application Instructions by September 25, 2015.

 

Same Great Service, Slightly Different Name

The eRA Commons Help Desk has a new name – eRA Service Desk (NOT-OD-15-147).  The new name reflects the expansion of the team’s role to support additional eRA services like ASSIST.

The contact information, hours of operation, and friendly service remain the same. If you’d like to provide feedback on service you received, you can always email the support management team at usbmgmt@od.nih.gov. Of course, we want to hear when you are unhappy so we have an opportunity to make things right. We also love to hear the happy stuff – that stuff makes our day!

 

Browsing eRA Systems

Did you know that eRA recommends Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers for use with eRA systems like eRA Commons, Internet Assisted Review and ASSIST (see eRA browser policy)? Many other popular browsers work just fine, but those are the two browsers the eRA team uses to develop and test our systems. If you use a different browser and your screen doesn’t look quite right, try Internet Explorer or Firefox and see if the issue is browser related.

Also, be sure to upgrade your browser periodically. Internet Explorer version 6.0 users may run into issues following some maintenance over the weekend. Yes, there is already an Internet Explorer 11 and version 6 was released 14 years ago, but some of you (and you know who you are) don’t seem to believe in frequent updates. No judgement here, but if you were in front of me I’d be giving you my best “basset hound are you serious face” right now.

 

Some Other Stuff

*You may be interested in this SciENcv blog post.

* We’ve consolidated our listservs (NOT-OD-15-132). OK, so if you got this email, you are likely already subscribed, but you can still share the notice with your coworkers. And, if you just joined our listserv – welcome.

* There is still time to register for the 2015 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration. Space in the pre-seminar workshops (including the half-day workshop on Grant Application Preparation & Submission given by yours truly and my good friend, Jessie) is nearly gone – so, act fast.

* August 26th was National Dog Day. I’m a bit late, but couldn’t resist the dog theme to mark the end of the dog days of summer. These are my two hound dogs, Dixie & Daisy. They bring such joy to my life. I hope you and your families (including the 4-legged members) had a great summer!

Take care,

Sheri 

Sheri Cummins

Communications & Outreach

NIH Office of Extramural Research

cumminss@mail.nih.gov

]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:09:38 -0700 6088:22662 <![CDATA[What Investigators Need to Know - Notes from the NCURA annual meeting]]> Sherie Donahue Recently several staff members attended tne annual Nactional Council of Research Administrators meeting in Washington, DC. Information from the NIH and NSF updates, SciENcv and non traditional agreements presentations will be of interest to our investigators and are below for yoru convenience.

  • How to Prepare an NSF Proposal: The good, the bad and the ugly
  • Excerrpts from the Current Issues at NIH presentation-- includes information on the 2015 budget, new guideance and policies, policy reminders, and
  • SciENcv: Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae
  • Exceprts from 'Exploring the Alphabet Soup of Non-traditional Agreements: CDA, DUA,
    MTA, MOU, CA, TA, VSA'
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