Dhanonjoy C Saha, PhD Director, Office of Grant Support (OGS) October 2, 2015

 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 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)  Helps with submission of non-competing applications, Just-in-Time, Supplemental Materials, RPPR and ….  Assists with communications or communicates with grant-making agencies  Helps with submitting Relinquishing Statements and preparing Final Invention Statements  Helps with finding resources for improving grant applications

 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  Grantsmanship: assist with team-building, writing, editing, proofreading, proposal review and critique and creating more competitive proposals  Visit us at - support/ support/

 Studies show that receiving funding correlates with services provided by the research administration (Grant Support) – faculty- administration partnership  Higher expectations increase efficiency – provided that tools are provided  (Caution) expediency should not be confused with efficiency  Must maintain a balance between effectiveness and efficiency depending upon our requirements  Faculty partners should be receptive to receive services provided and administration should be able to provide services to decrease administrative burden of the faculty

 Building relationship with funding agencies  Reviewing federal registrar and related meeting minutes – contacting responsible person – starting discussion – keeping engaged  Generating and communicating ideas, writing white papers  Reading BAA – communicating with appropriate agencies and program officers – writing white papers – prequalifying as service providers  Both cases will generate RFA or RFP in due course – success rate is very high

 Inviting Federal/Foundation/Sponsor program officers  soliciting ideas as to their priority areas  aligning our priority areas with theirs  developing programs and preparing for the announcement  Tapping into the discretionary funding or taking advantage of idea-sharing, or tapping into the sub- contract with otherwise successful awardees  Talking to local politicians and legislators and pursuing our goals – engaging faculty as research communicators  Making contact at the granting agencies and making trips to meet them in Washington, DC – making ourselves visible – in front of their eyes

 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

First Try13.4 (134)9.5 (137)9.1 (132)6.9 (159)6.8 (147) Second Try23.3 (30)30.8 (52)35.6 (45)25.9 (54)28.6 (49) Third Try26.3 (19)0.0 (6) Einstein Overall NIH Overall

First Try34 (41)26 (35)24 (38)42 (31)35 (34) Second Try27 (15)70 (10)30 (20)42 (12)47 (19) Third Try36 (11)33 (3) Overall NIH Overall

 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 any other help -- D. C Saha at (718) or