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Pitt Research Navigator
The Pitt Research Navigator is available to provide personalized customer service to help you more easily connect to the Pitt resources, services, and offices needed to move your research forward...
What is a Limited Submission Opportunity?
Limited Submissions are opportunities where a funding agency only accepts a certain number of applications from an institution. In these situations, Pitt is responsible for overseeing an internal...
Alert OSP to Submit Items in Sponsor Systems
Many sponsors have their own web portals to directly submit proposals, reports, updates, and requests. When the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is required to approve or submit a request in a...
Import Control Review
The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) works closely with the Office of Trade Compliance (OTC) when processing requests for Pitt to receive (import) biological materials...
Office of Sponsored Programs Internal Proposal Deadline
As a reminder, complete and final proposals, including the PI Certification, are to be received by OSP in...
PI Effort on Sponsored Awards
In accordance with Pitt Policy RI 09 Sponsored Projects – Effort Reporting/Certification, Principal...
Processing Bulk Agreement Requests
Projects with many collaborating sites can often require many separate but similar agreements for each partner (ex: Data Use Agreements or outgoing subawards) to be issued and executed at the same...
MyFunding Award Modifications to Increase or Decrease Budget
Award Modification Requests (AMRs) in PERIS™ MyFunding to increase or decrease the sponsor’s authorized budget amount must be approved in MyFunding before an entry in the...
Using Pivot to search for funding opportunities
The University of Pittsburgh subscribes to Pivot, a comprehensive database of funding opportunities. Pivot is accessible to the campus community through the...
How to Request Proxy (Delegate) Access in MyRA
A Pitt Principal Investigator (PI) may delegate another person to act on their behalf in...
Requesting MyRA Access to Submit Non-Financial Research Agreements and Track Negotiations of Agreements
My Research Agreements (MyRA) is an...
Obtaining Materials from an External Repository (e.g., Addgene)
Pitt researchers wanting to obtain research material from an external repository such as Addgene, should submit the request to the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) as a...
Which IRB approval letter should I include in MyRA?
In MyRA, it is important to upload...
Who in OSP is working on my modification request?
The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) Specialist working on an Award Modification Request (AMR) may not be the same OSP Specialist who processed the initial award. To ensure you are communicating...
Which OSP team will process my proposal or award?
The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) has three main processing teams. Proposals and awards are processed by team according to the original (prime) funding source and mechanism.
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