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New Subcontract Request Form
As part of the Office of Research Quality Improvement Project (QIP), a new streamlined form for requesting issuance of a outgoing subcontract has been developed. The new form is interactive and will allow faculty to more readily submit subaward requests. Effective immediately, the new Subaward Request Form should be used when requesting either a new or amended subaward. The form can be submitted directly to the Office of Sponsored Research as an email attachment or by other means as needed.
A copy of the new on-line form along with full information on subrecipient monitoring requirements at UCSF can be found on the Contracts & Grants website.
The final bill funding NIH for FY 2006 retains the reimbursement salary
cap for NIH, AHRQ, and SAMHSA grants at Executive Level I. The Office
of Personnel Management last week announced that for 2006, the Executive
Level I salary level would rise to $183,500, up $3,400 over the 2005
level of $180,100. View the 2006
OPM salary tables online.
As in past years, the NIH Office for Extramural Research will develop a
Policy Notice that will announce this and other legislative mandates.
OSR Update on Electronic Research Administration (eRA)
This periodic communication will help bring you up to date with the myriad of new electronic systems that are being deployed by our funding sponsors. The last OSR eRA Update mentioned that NIH would transition to Grants.gov for new and competing renewal applications. This edition of the OSR eRA Update will bring you more news on federal electronic submissions. [more…]
NIH and AHRQ Salary Cap Guidance
NIH, SAMHSA and AHRQ have announced new Salary Cap Rates for FY2006. These new rates can be found on the NIH web site: NOT-OD-06-031 and NOT-HS-06-033.
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New Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Rate Agreement
The campus has received a new F&A rate agreement from the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cost Allocation, Western Division. Please distribute this attached campus guidance concerning implementation of the new F&A rates on to all applicable faculty and administrative staff within your department or unit. [more...]
Retirement Contributions In Proposals
At the March 2006 meeting of the Board of Regents the University will present a proposal that calls for employer payments to the University’s defined contribution retirement fund. This will be the first time since 1990 that the University of California will make payments to the retirement fund on behalf of each eligible employee. A contribution of 3% of salary will be effective July 1, 2007 increasing to a 5% contribution effective July 1, 2009. [more...]
OSR Announces New Form for Privately Sponsored Clinical Studies
Effective immediately, a Principal Investigator on a privately sponsored clinical study must submit a new form, entitled “UCSF Supplement to Form 700-U for Privately Sponsored Clinical Studies,” along with Form 700-U at the time of proposal submission. This form is located on the forms page of the COIAC website. The Conflict of Interest Advisory Committee (COIAC) and the COI staff are introducing this new form to save time and to replace the former “Clinical Studies Agreement Letter” (CSAL).
If you have any questions, please read the COIAC website or contact Deanna Ruth Rutter @ 476.5566, or Carol Chan at Carol Chan @ 502-5741.
Workshop: Introduction to Industry Clinical Trials Processing
The next "Introduction to Industry Clinical Trials Processing" workshops will be offered Wed., March 8, 2006 from 9:30am to 11:00am at OSR's Industry Contracts Division at China Basin (Mission Bay), Wed., May 3, 2006 from 9:30am to 11:00am at OSR’s Contracts & Grants Office at Laurel Heights (Suite 320C). [more...]
NATIONAL NEWS
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to operate on a continuing resolution (CR) that currently extends through December 17, 2005. The CR applies the terms of the FY 2005 appropriations for the period covered by the CR. Until the final FY 2006 appropriation is enacted, NIH will be issuing non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award (generally up to 80% of the previously committed level). NIH will consider upward adjustments to these levels after the final appropriation is enacted, but expects institutions to monitor their expenditures carefully during this period.
Questions regarding adjustments applied on individual grant awards may be directed to the Grants Management Specialist identified on the Notice of Award.
HHS OIG Issues Compliance Guidance
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released draft guidance for grant recipients to assist them in complying with the laws and regulations that govern grants. The guidance is designed to help Public Health Service grantee institutions develop controls, policies, and procedures that promote compliance. The recent document takes a format similar to other OIG compliance guidance, in that it operates within the OIG's standard framework for compliance programs, which are drawn from Federal Sentencing Guidelines. In addition to helping institutions manage grants, compliance programs are viewed favorably as evidence of an institution's intent by prosecutors in cases involving fraud or false claims. Comments are due on the draft guidance by December 28. Review the guidance
Draft OIG Audit Leaked
A draft of an audit by the Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General finds that the University of California improperly charged the federal government $6 million, through its contract for operating the Los Alamos National Laboratory, for money that it contributed to a charitable foundation that performs education and outreach in the New Mexico communities around the lab. The contributions to the foundation, the auditors found, should have come from the university not the grant. The New Mexican reports that the draft audit was leaked via a Web site maintained by Los Alamos employees that is frequently critical of management at the lab. The university says that it plans a response to the audit that will indicate that it disagrees with the finding.
NIH Program Seeks to Speed Grant Process for New Applicants
The National Institutes of Health has announced a pilot program designed to expedite the grant process for young scientists who have never won an award from the agency. If successful, the NIH might extend the revised procedure to all investigators, who often complain about delays. [more...]
NIH Pilot Study to Shorten the Review Cycle for New Investigator R01 Applications
Shortening the review cycle is a high priority for the National Institutes of Health and the biomedical and behavioral research communities. There is also great interest in the career development of scientists and NIH is committed to supporting new investigators in their efforts to obtain R01 research grant funding. [more...]
Grants.gov Non-Windows Application Solution
One of the principal concerns expressed by COGR’s membership with NIH’s implementation of the Grants.gov SF 424 R&R application process was the absence of a non-Windows application environment. See the announcement on the NIH Electronic Submission web site.
NIH Makes Major Changes to its Grant Application Process
After months of intense preparation, the National Institutes of Health opened its doors in November to receive its first round of grant applications electronically through the Federal web portal of Grants.gov. Almost 2,000 small business and conference grant applications streamed in electronically to NIH for December receipt dates via Grants.gov, marking a major stride forward in NIH’s ongoing electronic submission efforts. [more…]
NIH Announcement on Stipend Levels on NIH Training Grants
The NIH Guide dated January 9, 2006 at has published the Kirschstein-NRSA FY 2006 stipend levels and institutional allowance and training related expense levels for awards made after October 1, 2005. Please distribute this announcement on all applicable staff and faculty within your department.
NIH Financial Policy for Grant Awards – FY 2006
The NIH appropriation for FY 2006 includes an across-the-board reduction to non-emergency, discretionary programs, which has a direct impact on NIH's budget. The NIH share of this adjustment is approximately $286 million. NIH has established the following financial polices consistent with this appropriation. [more...]
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipend and other Budgetary Levels Effective for Fiscal Year 2006
The stipend levels for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Kirschstein-NRSA awards for undergraduate, predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees and fellows, training Related Expenses for trainees and the Institutional Allowance for individual fellows for FY 2006, are shown here.
OSTP Extension of comment period on Graduate Support
Today's Federal Register. OSTP has extended the comment period on its "Proposed Principles for Federal Support of Graduate and Postdoctoral Education" to January 31st. [more...] View full text.
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