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Completing your COI Annual Disclosure by April 16
The deadline for the 2018 annual Conflict of Interest (COI) disclosure filings is Monday, April 16, 2018. Annual COI disclosures must be completed and current prior to the Office of Sponsored...
How are future funding option periods handled in federal contracts?
Sometimes a federal contract will provide funding for a base period of performance and then provide estimates for future options. Options for federal contracts are typically at the discretion of...
Cost-Reimbursable and Fixed-Price Subawards
Outgoing subawards may be issued with either a cost-reimbursable (most common) or a fixed-price payment mechanism.
Do I Need to Complete an Internal Detailed Budget in MyFunding when Using a Modular Budget in My NIH Grant Application?
The PERIS™ MyFunding module has been updated to better accommodate the use of National Institutes of Health (NIH) modular...
How Do I Incorporate Graduate Student Fringe Benefits in MyFunding?
To incorporate graduate student fringe benefits in a funding proposal budget within the...
How Does the NIH Define a Clinical Trial?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines a Clinical Trial as “ A research study in which one or more human...
Submitting Pre-Proposal Information in MyFunding
When a sponsor requires or recommends the submission of pre-proposal material such as a Letter of Intent (LOI), Pre-Application, or White Paper prior to the submission of a full proposal, it may...
Remember to Update Your Proposal Submission Status in MyFunding
For proposals that can be submitted to a sponsor directly by the Department, the Office of Sponsored Programs Specialist (Officer) will review the Funding Proposal within MyFunding and return...
Why Isn’t the Annual Conflict of Interest (COI) Disclosure Date Showing Up in the PERIS™ module, MyFunding?
MyFunding receives a feed from an HSConnect database allowing the most recent annual COI disclosure date to prepopulate for each individual named in a proposal. There are two reasons why...
Subscribing to Funding Opportunity Announcements on Grants.gov
On November 20, 2017, Grants.gov updated how individuals can create and manage funding opportunity subscriptions. Using the site’s ...
MyRA Self-Registrations
MyRA (My Research Agreements) is the University of Pittsburgh Office of Sponsored Programs online application for the web-based development, routing, and...
Using an External Institution’s IRB as the “IRB of Record”
When two or more institutions are engaged in human subjects research, investigators may prefer to have one Institutional Review Board (IRB) serve as the “IRB of Record” to avoid duplicate review...
Consulting the Office of Sponsored Programs for Services Agreements Issued under Federal Contracts
Federal Contracts contain terms and conditions (specific requirements) that must be included in Services Agreements...
What can (and cannot) be included as NIH Appendix materials?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have policies that describe what is allowed to be included as Appendix materials in funding applications. Generally, an Appendix material is not allowed...
Checklist for Investigators Leaving the University
The Office of Research Protections (ORP) has developed a checklist for investigators who are leaving...