Dhanonjoy C. Saha, PhD Director, Office of Grant Support (OGS) October 21, 2015

 Grant capacity and grant readiness  The Office of Grant Support (OGS)  Grants.gov, Sci Val, eRA Commons, Cayuse  Regina Janicki, Gerard McMorrow, DC Saha, Jed Shivers, Tanya Dragic  Application development, budget development, routing, compliance (IACUC, IRB, Bio-safety), application submitting, checking verification  Submitting applications and JITs, receiving NOA/NOGA and managing awards

 Grant capacity: Institution’s potential volume of grant activity while considering qualification, complexity, and suitability  Grant readiness: Relative level of preparation to pursue grant activity, both in general and in respect to specific projects and opportunities  At any given point, we may have the capacity, but may not have the readiness and vice versa  To be successful, we must have both

 The Office of Grant Support (OGS) is comprised of only three individuals who provide pre-award administrative assistance to the College community  Our goal is to enable faculty scholars to submit grant proposals and to manage subsequent non-financial responsibilities of the award, resubmission, and renewal processes

 Helps develop or review proposal budgets  Reviews and ensures pre-submission regulatory requirements  Helps with creating and managing electronic grant submissions  Assists with required registrations for grant application submissions  Helps submissions of grant proposals to granting agencies or sponsors  Negotiates budgets and other related terms and conditions of the awards with the sponsors  Manages Awards Committee nominations (for limited submissions)

 Assists with communications or communicates with grant-making agencies  Helps with finding resources for improving grant applications – writing, editing, proposal review and critique - creating more competitive proposals ant-support/ ant-support/  Helps with submission of non-competing applications, Just-in-Time, Supplemental Materials, RPPR, RS, FIS and ….

 Find funding opportunities -- small or large grants -- state, federal, private, foundation  Target dissemination of funding opportunities to interested trainees and faculty members  Interpret proposal guidelines and help with building application materials-- eligibility, forms, institutional data and ….  Demystify DoD, NIH, NSF and other federal and non-federal policies, procedures, and jargons  Serves as a one-stop shop for submitting grant applications

 SciVal Funding – subscription – free for Einstein- Montefiore  InfoEd SPIN – subscription – free for limited programs  Grants.gov – free  Foundation Center Finding Funders – free  NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts – free  NSF Guide to Programs – free  GrantsNet – free  New York State GrantsGateway – free.  Many more …

 COS Funding Opportunities Database – subscription.  InfoEd SPIN – subscription.  GrantForward – subscription.  ResearchResearch – subscription.  Foundation Directory Online Platinum – subscription.  Grant $elect – subscription.  Many more …

  This database contains about 21,000 active funding opportunities, 5.8 million awarded grants and about 9,000 funding bodies  Go to our website, click Research, then click Collaboration Zone, then click Sci Val Funding Site  Build your own profile/criteria for the funding opportunities  You will find many useful resources by clicking on the “Innovative Collaboration Tool,” then “Investigators Resources” and “Einstein Research Profiles”

 sp sp  SPIN includes opportunities in all disciplines and is extensive. Covers almost all federal and many private foundation grants. You may be able to do some searches for free  Choose “Advanced Search” from the main search screen  Then select keywords, applicant types, award types, citizenship, geographic restrictions, and locations tenable  Search by status (junior faculty, postdoctoral and so on), - an especially useful feature

  Basic information on private and community foundations, and corporate grantmakers in the U.S.  Search by name of foundation or sector (type of foundation)  Look at annotated list of grantmakers’ web sites  Current opportunities are in PND (Philanthropy News Digest); clicking on it then clicking on the RFPs

 t_opportunities.jsp t_opportunities.jsp  US Federal funding opportunities from all agencies. SEARCH Grants.gov for your federal grants by keywords or more specific criteria. All discretionary grants offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies can be found on Grants.gov

 National Science Foundation (NSF) National Science Foundation (NSF)   Provides general descriptions of funding programs for all NSF directorates  Department of Defense (DoD) – Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) 

  NIH Guide announcements are published daily. On Friday afternoon, NIH transmits an to NIH Guide LISTSERV subscribers with the Table of Contents (TOC), including links to announcements published during the weekTable of Contents (TOC)  To Subscribe to the NIH Guide LISTSERV, send an to with the following text in the message body (not the "Subject" line):  subscribe NIHTOC-L your name (Example: subscribe NIHTOC-L Bill Jones)  Your address will be automatically obtained from the message and add you to the LISTSERV

  It is a NYS central electronic portal for all New York State Grants and Contracts  Log in and browse for funding opportunities  It also has alert services for new funding opportunities. You can sign up under “Notification”

New Investigator: An NIH research grant Program Director/ Principal Investigator (PD/PI) who has not yet competed successfully for a substantial, competing NIH research grant is considered a New Investigator. However, a PD/PI who has received a Small Grant (R03) or an Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) retains his or her status as a New Investigator. Early Stage Investigator (ESI): An individual who is classified as a New or First-Time Investigator and is within 10 years of completing his/her terminal research degree or is within 10 years of completing medical residency (or the equivalent) is considered an Early Stage Investigator (ESI). More information at

 Pathway to Independence Award-Research Phase (R00)  Small Grant (R03)Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)  Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21)  Research Education Grants (R25, R90, RL9, RL5)  Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34)  Dissertation Award (R36)  Small Business Technology Transfer Grant-Phase I (R41, UT1)  Small Business Innovation Research Grant-Phase I (R43, U43)Shannon Award (R55)  NIH High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56)  Competitive Research Pilot Projects (SC2, SC3)  Resource Access Award (X01)

 Training-Related and Mentored Career Awards  All Fellowships (F awards)  All individual and institutional career awards (K awards)  Loan repayment contracts (L30, L32, L40, L50, L60)  All training grants (T32, T34, T35, T90, D43)  Instrumentation, Construction, Education, Health Disparity Endowment Grants, or Meeting Awards  G07, G08, G11, G13, G20  R13  S10, S15, S21, S22

Pathway to Independence Award (K99-R00) The PI award program is designed to facilitate a timely transition from a mentored postdoctoral research position to a stable independent research position with independent NIH or other independent research support. NIH Director’s New Innovator Award This award addresses two important goals: stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising early stage investigators. Many new investigators have exceptionally innovative research ideas, but not the preliminary data required to fare well in the traditional NIH peer review system. Search grants -- grants.html?keywords=new%20investigatorhttp:// grants.html?keywords=new%20investigator

Research grants that combine a smaller initial award that transitions without further competition to a second phase supported by a substantial, independent research grant will discontinue the New Investigator status for the PD/PI(s) at the point of transition to the larger award. This includes combined, transitional awards like the R21/R33, SBIR/STTR Fast-Track (R42, UT2, R44, U44), UH2/UH3.

 For general information, please contact the Office of Grant Support at (718) or  For budget -- Gerard McMorrow at (718) or  For Cayuse, eRA Commons and any other help -- Regina Jenicki at (718) or  For grant development, Tanya Dragic, PhD - (914) or  For any other help -- D. C. Saha at (718) or