1 FEDERAL UPDATES NIH OSP Roundtable November 10, 2010 DHMC

2 OVERVIEW  Recently Implemented Changes: My NCBI tool replaces eRA Commons for Bibliography Management New NIH Policy on Post-Submission Application Material Just-in-Time Commons Changes Proposal preparation costs allowable as a direct charge for Mentored Career Development Awards Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement  Changes Coming Up: Elimination of Error Correction Window for Due Dates On or After January 25, 2011 New Adobe Package: “Adobe-Forms-B1” New Time Limit for NIH Resubmission Applications  Current Continuing Resolution

3 Recently implemented changes  eRA Commons has partnered with National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which offers an online portal “My Bibliography”  Manage: Journal articles, manuscripts accepted for publication, books and book chapters NOT-OD

How does this effect the PI?  As of July 23, 2010 Commons will no longer support manual entry of citations  As of Oct. 22 nd, Commons will no longer display citations that a PI has manually entered into Commons. *All citations previously entered manually into Commons will be removed.* 4

Resources for my PI  eRA site has FAQs and step by step directions Creating and linking accounts Managing citations Delegating the authority to maintain My Bibliography account 5

New NIH Policy on Post-Submission Application Material  Effective for applications submitted for the September 25, 2010 receipt date and thereafter. * The AOR must send the materials directly to the SRO* NOT-OD

Just-in-Time Commons Changes  Recent changes to the eRA Commons Just-in-Time Submission Module : Improved the electronic process by allowing individual submissions of each required element separate from other elements New capability to submit updated information electronically as many times as necessary. NOT-OD

Proposal Preparation Costs  Allowable now for effort devoted to proposal preparation for subsequent research support to be charged as a direct cost to a mentored CDA.  Considered part of the awarded effort commitment of the CDA NOT-OD

Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement This revision is applicable to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, NOT-OD

Error Correction Window Going Away ` *NIH, AHRQ, and NIOSH* Beginning on and after 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.NIH late policy NOT-OD

New Forms - Again? *NIH, AHRQ, CDC, FDA & NIOSH*  ADOBE-FORMS-B1 are available now and required for due dates of January 25, 2011 and beyond for the following applications: Ks (Individual Research Career Award Programs) Fs (Individual National Research Service Awards) T’s & D’s (Institutional Training and Career Development Programs) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All other grant programs will be required to use new forms beginning May 8, 2011 Please read NOT-OD and NOT-OD NOT-OD NOT-OD

New Time Limit for NIH Resubmission Applications  NIH will not accept a Resubmission that is submitted later than thirty-seven months after the date of receipt ("receipt date") of the initial New, Renewal, or Revision application.  This policy will go into effect for Resubmissions intended for the January 25, 2011 receipt date and thereafter NOT-OD Continuous submission policies are included in Notice 12

13 Non-Competing Grant Awards under the Current Continuing Resolution “Under the continuing resolution (currently through December 3, 2010) NIH will issue non- competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award (generally up to 90% of the previously committed level).”  NIH will consider upward adjustments to these levels after the final appropriation is enacted. NOT-OD