CURRENT Topics
- Thank you to everyone for completing the survey!
- ~60 responses
- Focus area: Training
- SOMOGC presentations | Brown bags | Chat group
- Focus area: Website
- Creating congruence with OSP and other UVA sites | Layout
- Subcontracts from Internal/Local funding sources
- Will be managed by OSP
- Submit via eNFA
- ePRF documents
- If documents are available in the full proposal (ASSIST, Workspace, other sponsor portal, etc) they don’t need to be uploaded individually to the ePRF
- For applications without online portals or submission guidelines (e.g. subcontracts), combine all files into a single PDF or PDF Portfolio
- Include all miscellaneous documents in “Other” with identifiable labels
- Upload final documents as PDF files and not Word docs
- NIH Notice NOT-OD-20-124 https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-124.html
- For any change in Key Personnel named in the NOA and/or grant transfer, we are required to provide a statement “as to whether change(s) in PD/PI or Senior/Key Personnel is related to concerns about safety and/or work environments (e.g. due to concerns about harassment, bullying, retaliation, or hostile working conditions)”
- Foreign Influence
- Webinar “Enhancing the Security and Integrity of America’s Research Enterprise” (we will circulate the slides after today’s meeting)
- NIH resource page: https://grants.nih.gov/policy/protecting-innovation.htm
- UVA resource page: https://research.virginia.edu/compliance/research-regulations/foreign-influence-federally-sponsored-research
REMINDERS & Updates
- CRA Fall Prep Course
- Contact Rita Lam or Julia Emery at OSP
- AHA application deadlines
- No current dates for Pre- and Post-doc fellowships or other standard award mechanisms
- Update to application times – now 4pm ET instead of 6pm ET as in years past
- SOMOGC Approvals Matrix
- Enforced as of September 1
- Budget workgroup
- First meeting will be October 13
- Volunteers?
- Effort reporting errors for Clinical Faculty above the salary cap – effort reporting period December 2019-June 2020
- Faculty who have already certified their effort reports will need to recertify
- Faculty who have not certified should hold off until the error is corrected
Download the update document here
Download the OSTP presentation on Foreign Influence here