Latest News - AUGUST 2011

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NEW INDIRECT (F&A) RATE AGREEMENT FOR KUMC RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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FY2012 Fringe Rate Benefit for KU Medical Center faculty and staff has been increased to 32%.

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Modification of the Biographical Sketch in NIH Grant Application Forms (PHS 398, PHS 2590, and the SF 424 R&R) to Permit a Description of Factors that may have Reduced Productivity

Beginning with applications submitted for the May 25, 2011 and subsequent receipt dates, the biosketch instructions will include a modification of the personal statement section to remind applicants that they can provide a description of personal issues that may have reduced productivity.  The revised instructions for the personal statement are shown below and should appear in applications toward the end of March:

Personal statement: Briefly describe why your experience and qualifications make you particularly well-suited for your role (e.g., PD/PI, mentor) in the project that is the subject of the application. Within this section you may, if you choose, briefly describe factors such as family care responsibilities, illness, disability, and active duty military service that may have affected your scientific advancement or productivity. 

Providing information about personal issues is optional.  If applicants wish to provide such information they are encouraged to limit such descriptions to a few sentences.  
(Notice Number: NOT-OD-11-045)

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CLICK HERE for NIH Update from National Council of University Research Administrators Meeting in Washington, DC, 11/3/2010

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NIH, AHRQ, and NIOSH to Eliminate Error Correction Window for Due Dates On or After January 25, 2011

Notice Number: NOT-OD-10-123 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-10-123.html

Beginning with due dates on or after January 25, 2011, NIH, AHRQ and NIOSH will eliminate the error correction window from the application submission process. The agencies have made this decision after carefully evaluating the comments received from the public in response to the RFI (Request for Information) released on March 12, 2010. Eliminating the error correction window will ensure consistent and fair deadlines for all applicants and better align these agencies’ application submission processes with the submission processes of other federal agencies.

The error correction window originally was implemented in December 2005 as a temporary measure to facilitate the transition from paper to electronic submission of grant applications. The window allowed applicants an opportunity after the deadline to correct missing or incorrect aspects of their applications, identified by NIH system-generated errors and warnings displayed to the applicant after submission.

Beginning on January 25, 2011, all applications submitted after 5 p.m. local time of the applicant organization on the due date will be subject to the NIH late policy and may not be accepted for review. In addition, any post-submission application materials will be subject to the new policy detailed in the NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-10-115.1,2

PMID vs. PMCID: What’s the difference?

NIH grant proposals, applications and reports are required to include the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) for cited articles that have been archived in PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy (mandatory compliance effective April 7, 2008). PubMed Central is a free, publicly-accessible full-text digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. All articles added to PubMed Central are assigned a unique identifier – a PMCID – that will need to be submitted to the NIH. Due to similar terminology, there is confusion over where to find the correct number. Click here for instructions on how to find the correct number.

PMID : PMCID Converter : Given a set of PubMed IDs (PMIDs) you can use this converter to obtain the corresponding PMCIDs if they exist. A PMCID will be available if the article is in PubMed Central (PMC).

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