Institution and Sponsor Updates

From time to time Columbia University and funding agencies – both government and private - announce changes to their requirements and polices.

The Mailman School of Public Health Research Administration monitors these updates and posts them below.

Research Administration Forums

CUMC Forums 

The Research Administration Forums is an opportunity to provide the Columbia community with important updates on sponsored projects and research administration. Anyone at Morningside, CUMC, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Nevis Laboratories involved in the development, submission and overall management of sponsored projects is invited and encouraged to attend. It is an opportunity to provide you with regular updates and answer your questions. 

The purpose of these forums is to provide communications on:

  • Sponsor news and hot topics
  • Policy and procedure additions or updates
  • Updates on electronic grant submission / InfoEd / Rascal
  • Internal structural changes that may affect your day to day management of grants
  • Pre- and post-award issues

 

Newly Released NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide

Changes in the Revised NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 19-1)

Significant Changes:

NIH: NO MORE APPENDICES

• NOT-OD-17-098 - Eliminate most appendix materials for applications to NIH, AHRQ or NIOSH for due dates on or after January 25, 2018.

• If appendix materials are required in the FOA, review criteria for that FOA will address those materials, and applications submitted without those appendix materials will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed.

• Applications will be withdrawn and not reviewed if this is not adhered to!

NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Post-Submission Material Policy (NOT-OD-23-106)

Purpose

In response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, NIH implemented a special exception for post-submission material, allowing a one-page update of preliminary data as post-submission material to specified notices of funding opportunity (NOFOs) (see latest in series of exception notices NOT-OD-23-066). The Public Health Emergency is due to end on May 11, 2023 (see NOT-OD-23-095). For applications submitted for the May 25, 2023 receipt date and beyond, that special exception is ended and is replaced by the following policy. 

For applications submitted for the May 25, 2023 receipt date and beyond, NIH, AHRQ, and NIOSH will accept a one-page update with preliminary data as post-submission material for Type 1 R01, R21, or R03 applications, including resubmissions, if the NOFO used for submission allows preliminary data in the application. Because applications for emergency competitive revisions and urgent competitive revisions undergo expedited review, post-submission materials will not be accepted for those applications.

Enhanced NIH Compliance

NIH Public Access Policy Details

NIH will delay processing of non-competing continuation grant awards if publications arising from that award are not in compliance with the NIH public access policy, beginning Spring 2013. Awards will not be processed until recipients have demonstrated compliance. Read the details of this very important notice above.

New Podcasts on NIH Public Access Policy

The NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) published three podcasts to help grantees understand the NIH Public Access Policy and to introduce investigators and institutions to new tools NIH has made available for ensuring compiance with the policy. In the first podcast, Understanding the NIH Public Access Policy, OER’s Dr. Neil Thakur, program manager for the public access policy, gives an overview of the policy and describes NIH’s efforts to enhance policy compliance. In the second podcast in the series,Using MyNCBI to Manage NIH Public Access Policy Compliance, Dr. Bart Trawick of the National Library of Medicine discusses how MyNCBI can be used by authors to collect citations from PubMed and determine which publications fall under NIH’s public access policy. In the final podcast, Using the Public Access Compliance Monitor Tool, Peter Cooper of the National Library of Medicine describes a tool for research administrators that allows them to monitor and report on NIH Public Access Policy compliance across their research institution. You can find all of these podcasts and their transcripts on the All About Grants podcast webpage.

NIh Career Development (K) Awards

Changes in salary caps for the K02, K08 and K23 Career Development Awards. See NIH for more information.

PHS COI Regulations

The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a new financial conflict of interest regulation - Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting Objectivity in Research for which Public Health Service Funding is Sought and Responsible Prospective Contractor. The regulation, which takes effect on August 24, 2012, governs research sponsored by NIH, CDC, AHRQ, and other PHS agencies and applies to all investigators on new awards, new proposals, non-competing renewals, and no cost extensions received or submitted on or after that date. Please see the website for more information: Conflict of Interest and Research

NIH Policy

• Change in the NIH Continuous Submission Policy for Reviewers with Recent Substantial Service.

• NIH Single IRB Policy

• Revised Common Rule - U.S. Department of Health & fifteen other agencies issued final revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects Common Rule

• Inclusion Across Lifespan-Policy

NIH’s xTrain

Nearly all NIH institutional research training grants, fellowships, education and career development awards will require the use of the xTrain electronic appointment system. Learn about the xTrain system now.