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Official NIH Notice: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-19-036.html

NIH just released the stipend levels for fiscal year (FY) 2019 (October 1, 2018 – September 30^th, 2019) Kirschstein-NRSA awards for predoctoral, and postdoctoral trainees and fellows. The link above includes all of the details. I know many of you preparing training grants and fellowship applications right now. You can use these new stipend and expense levels in your proposals and progress reports, effective immediately.

To note, the predoctoral stipend increased to $24,816 (FY19), up from $24,324 (FY18)…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released its latest version of their Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS, rev Oct 2018). It is applicable to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning October 1^st, 2018. It supersedes the previous version (NIHGPS, rev Oct 2017).  You can read the full announcement here:

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-19-021.html

The HTML and PDF versions of the NIHGPS can be found at https://grants.nih.gov/policy/nihgps/index.htm.

NIH updates the NIHGPS every October to incorporate policy announcements that…

The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library (HSL) and Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA) are pleased to introduce you to a new tool: PIVOT, which allows instantaneous access to the funding opportunities that are right for you. 

Start using PIVOT at: https://pivot.proquest.com/ and sign up for an account using your Columbia University email address. 

PIVOT strengths:

• Editorially curated up-to-date funding opportunities span all disciplines and project types, from health and medicine to humanities, law and education, worth an estimated $49 billion.
• A proprietary…

Attention NIH Investigators and Administrators,

I wanted to highlight some resources that are available for addressing rigor and reproducibility in your grant applications. In a July Open Mike blog post, NIH highlighted several resources that are readily available. These resources, plus many more, have been compiled in an easy-to-navigate online repository as part of the Research and Data Integrity (ReaDI) Program here at Columbia. You may already be aware of the ReaDI Program and the resources that are available to Columbia researchers, but if you want to know more, the ReaDI Program is hosting…

NIH announced last week that they are retiring the Inclusion Management System (IMS) and replacing it with a new Human Subjects System (HSS) as of June 9^th, 2018. Per the NIH HSS website, “The HSS system is a shared system that enables grant recipients to electronically report and update their data on human subjects and clinical trials to NIH; and for NIH agency staff to monitor and manage the data.”

The information you provide in the new PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information form in proposals, and in the Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs), automatically populate…

Official NIH Notice: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-18-175.html

NIH released the stipend levels for fiscal year (FY) 2018 (October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2018) Kirschstein-NRSA awards for predoctoral, and postdoctoral trainees and fellows. The link above includes all of the details. You can use these new stipend and expense levels in your proposals and progress reports, effective immediately.

To note, the predoctoral stipend increased to $24,324 (FY18), up from $23,844 (FY17). However, the Training Related Expenses and Institutional Allowances for predoctoral trainees…

This is to provide an update on the status of the release of the FY18 Department of Defense (DoD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) funding opportunities and program pre-announcements.  You can subscribe to be alerted on the release of specific CDMRP funding opportunities by selecting your area of interest at https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/programSubscription/Subscribe.htm.

As of today, the only FY18 extramural opportunities available are the Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP), which is currently accepting applications for six award mechanisms throughout May 2018.

NIH issued guidance on the use of a new NIH salary cap, to increase from $187,000 to $189,600.  See https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-18-137.html.  The effective date of this increase is January 7^th, 2018.

NIH has not received the final Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 appropriation and is operating under a continuing resolution through March 23^rd, 2018 (see NOT-OD-18-136 also a very important notice).  However, NIH issued this guidance until a budget is passed.

In summary, this is how the $189,600 salary cap can be applied:

• NIH proposal budgets may be submitted…

Last week, an announcement came out from NIH & AHRQ that stated “beginning in early FY 2020, NIH and AHRQ intend to require the use of the xTRACT system in the eRA Commons to prepare the required data tables for certain types of training grant applications.”

You can read the full announcement here: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-18-133.html

Here is the important part:

“Beginning with RPPRs due on or after October 1, 2019 and applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2020, NIH and AHRQ anticipate that they will mandate that required…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a revised Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that will take effect for proposals submitted on, or due on or after, January 29^th, 2018.  A listing of significant changes from the PAPPG 2017 version can be found here.

I highly recommend watching the NSF webinar, which took place on December 8, 2017. It provides an explanation of the significant changes, making it very easy to understand them. It also provides a preview of NSF’s Proposal Submission Modernization initiative. NSF has been working toward moving proposal…

Want to learn about the new NIH PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information Form, now required in FORMS-E? We'll be conducting informal webinars to help you become familiar with the form in preparation for NIH applications due on or after January 25th, 2018.

These sessions are open to both faculty and grants administrators wanting to learn more about the form. It doesn’t matter if you use ASSIST or PD in InfoEd to participate in these calls.

Here are the dates. You can register with your UNI and password within each link, and you’ll receive confirmation via email with the ZOOM…

NIH will make the Project Outcomes Section of all Interim and Final RPPRs submitted on or after October 1, 2017 available to the general public via the NIH RePORTER. See notice NOT-OD-18-103.

You should also read Mike Lauer’s Blog, Why Project Outcomes Matter in your Interim and Final RPPR, which provides helpful tips on writing this section for the general public.

Per the notice, this allows recipients of NIH funds “to provide the general public with a concise summary of the cumulative outcomes or findings of the project (analogous to the Project Summary/Abstract section of the competing…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has started the process of posting Parent Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) with the new FORMS-E packages. This process will continue throughout November. Note that the new Parent FOAs with FORMS-E released at this time have been labeled as either “Clinical Trial Required” or “Clinical Trial Not Allowed.”

Please ensure you proceed as follows:

1. Determine if your project meets the NIH definition of a clinical trial.
2. Select the appropriate FOA.
   1. See NIH’s Plan for Clinical Trial Specific Parent R01 and Parent R21 FOAs.
   2. See…

The following notice came directly from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and is quoted below.

Dear Colleagues:

We are pleased to announce that a revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 18-1) has been issued.

A webinar to brief the community on the new PAPPG will be held on December 8 at 2 PM EST. Registration is now available at: https://nsfgrantsconferences.com/pappg-update-webinar/

The new PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 29, 2018. Significant changes include:

• Addition of…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released several announcements concerning policy changes impacting studies involving human subjects, in particular those studies meeting the NIH definition of a clinical trial. Some of these changes have been announced previously. The information we’re receiving on these policies is evolving and dynamic.

This communication serves to provide you with the available resources that exist at this time, with emphasis on the definition of a clinical trial, and to identify items for you to consider throughout the sponsored projects lifecycle. Our offices…