Archived Announcements
NIH & AHRQ issued announcements that their salary caps increased from $189,600 to $192,300. See NIH Guidance NOT-OD-19-099 and AHRQ Guidance NOT-HS-19-013. The effective date of this increase is January 6th, 2019.
In summary, this is how the $192,300 salary cap can be applied:
- Proposals: NIH and AHRQ proposal budgets may be submitted using the new cap.
- Active Awards: Can rebudget funds to allow for increase in rates. It is a good time to verify all salary allocations, and adjust salary distributions as appropriate.
If you have any questions, please feel free…
More Department of Defense (DoD) Funding Opportunities have been released since I sent the original announcement on February 28th, 2019. There are opportunities for postdocs all the way through the full professor level. Pre-applications are required for most programs. Take a look at the following recently released announcements:
The Opioid Crisis and the Need for Research
As you may know, the US is facing a crisis with opioid abuse, with over 47,000 deaths in 2017. In response, many federal agencies are providing funding opportunities to research that addresses this crisis. The opportunities are broad in scope and inclusive of many scientific disciplines.
Columbia’s Response to the Opioid Crisis
The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is dedicated to addressing this national crisis, and strongly supports multi-disciplinary research and new collaborations to examine all aspects of the…
NIH continues to update the Fellowship Parent Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) with information on participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs). See the latest list of updates in the March 8th version of their Weekly Guide:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=03-08-2019
There have been corrections made with regards to NIAID, NIBIB, and NEI. Therefore, it is possible you saw that an IC was not participating in a fellowship, but now they are!
The important thing to note is if you are not sure, or have other questions, review the Table of IC-Specific…
I wanted to draw your attention to the NIH Center for Scientific Review’s Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program. If eligible, it is an opportunity to improve your grant proposal writing skills by experiencing first-hand how grant applications are evaluated. You will also network with accomplished researchers, and learn how applications are reviewed and scored.
To qualify for the ECR program, you must:
- Have at least 2 years’ experience as a full-time faculty member or researcher in a similar role. Post-doctoral fellows are not eligible.
- Show evidence of an active, independent research…
Pre-recorded Webinars on Funding Opportunities:
The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) of the Department of Defense (DoD) invites the research community to view a webinar series on funding opportunities in both research and career development. The second webinar, which was posted today, walks through three categories of hypothesis-driven, high risk/high gain funding opportunities - Initial Concept Awards, Early Idea Awards, and Established Idea Awards. The key features associated with these categories include innovation, impact, and research strategy and feasibility…
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to inform you that on March 1st, 2019, Pivot is moving to https://pivot.proquest.com and the current Pivot URL, pivot.cos.com will be discontinued. Traffic to cos.com will not automatically redirect to the new URL. Please update your bookmarks, hyperlinks and other materials to the new URL. All other functionality in Pivot will remain the same, including your account and any searches you have saved. Should you have any questions about Pivot or the URL change, please feel free to reach out to Ricardo Andrade at [email protected] or Stephanie Scott…
The following announcement came directly from the NSF Policy Office on 2/15/2019. It is copied and pasted below.
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Dear Colleagues,
Due to the recent lapse in appropriations, implementation of the revised NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 19-1) was postponed. We are pleased to announce that the revised PAPPG will now be effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after February 25, 2019. Significant changes include:
- Addition of Research.gov as an option for proposal preparation…
NIH just posted in the Extramural Nexus this morning a reminder to applicants of the new Inclusion Across the Lifespan Policy. It requires grant applicants to address the age-appropriate inclusion or exclusion of individuals in Section 2.4 of the Study Record in the PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trial Information Form.
As a reminder, this policy, and all other policy changes impacting NIH proposal preparation for 2019 can be found on our website at New NIH FOAs and Application Changes for 2019. We’ll continue to update this page with additional resources and materials as they become available…
The Resumption of Operations at NSF page on the NSF website has been updated with important information, including identification of new deadline dates for specific solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters. Please review the website carefully, and you may need to go to the NSF Program Officials for clarifications.
Dear Colleagues,
As many of you are aware, a continuing resolution was signed by the President, which keeps the government operating through February 15th. NSF created a webpage, Resumption of Operations at NSF, containing guidance for proposers and awardees. It contains a list of solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters (DCLs) that will have new proposal deadline dates. These revised deadlines will be released by February 1st on this webpage.
NSF is experiencing a backlog of activities resulting from the shutdown. NSF’s Resumption of Operations at NSF webpage will continue to be…
A number of new and re-issued NIH Parent Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs), as well as policy changes impacting proposal preparation, are going into effect in the coming weeks. To assist researchers and administrators with the transition, we created a new webpage as a ‘one-stop-shop’ to provide summaries and guidance. We’ll continue to update and include more resources to this webpage as we receive more information.
Please see New NIH FOAs and Application Changes for 2019.
In addition, you can use the attached one-pager to distribute during department faculty and staff meetings…
January 07, 2019
Dear Colleagues:
As of this time, the partial government shutdown continues and it is uncertain when it will be resolved. This announcement serves to provide guidance on the management of sponsored projects funded by those federal agencies impacted by the shutdown. This includes NASA, NSF, Commerce (including NIST and NOAA), FDA, EPA, the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities.
None of HHS (including NIH, CDC, CMS, HRSA, SAMHSA and AHRQ), DOD, VA, DOE and the DE is impacted by the shutdown.
Communications
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December 22, 2018
Dear Colleagues:
As many of you already know, the partial shutdown of the federal government went into effect at midnight last night. The shutdown primarily affects those agencies that have not been funded through the end of federal fiscal year (FFY) 2019, including NSF, NASA and EPA and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, State and Transportation. With the exception of the NSF, the affected agencies have not yet issued guidance on how the shutdown will impact their grant and contract…
Today NIH released the new Parent Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) for the R01 and R21 funding mechanisms dedicated to Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans. These studies fall within the NIH definition of a clinical trial and also meet the definition of basic research. Read the NIH Open Mike blog for more information.
These new Parent FOAs, along with all other Parent FOAs, can be found in the NIH Parent Announcements.
In addition, similar FOAs were released for all the Parent Career Development Award (K-series) FOAs. However, those are only available in the November 30, 2018…