NEW! School of Medicine Guide to Grants.gov Now Online

Reminder: All R03, R21, R21/R33, R33 and R34 Grant Applications Must Use SF424 (R&R) and Grants.gov for the June 1, 2006, Submission Date and Beyond

ALL applications in response to announcements for these grant programs must be submitted electronically (i.e., paper-based PHS 398 applications will not be accepted). Applications that were first submitted in paper and are being resubmitted as amended applications must now use electronic submission via Grants.gov using the SF424 (R&R) forms.

For more information on this announcement, including details on how funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) will change, click here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/
guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-068.html

Remember that to be considered timely filed with the Office of Research Administration (ORA), a proposal must include both (1) a paper copy of the final version of the application, including a signed eInformation Sheet and (2) the uploaded electronic proposal must be provided to ORA not less than five working days prior to the due date. For more information on ORAs requirements for electronic proposals, click here: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/webnotes/grants/0605.cfm

NIH Announces Plans to Eliminate Mailing of Paper Assignment and Change of Assignment Letters

As the NIH continues towards its goal of a paperless grants process, NIH will no longer send paper notification of assignment and change of assignment letters. Remember that effective May 10, 2006 all applications submitted to NIH must include the eRA Commons User name for all Project Directors/Principal Investigators (PD/PIs). This applies to paper applications as well as electronic applications. Investigators will need to use the eRA Commons, a Web interface where NIH and the applicant organizations are able to conduct extramural research administration business electronically, to obtain assignment information. To retrieve the School of Medicine's eRA commons access form, click here: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Research/ora/Forms/ERACommonsAccess.doc. To review our eRA commons FAQ, click here: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Research/FMIP/eRACommons/eRACommons
FAQ.html. For more information within NIH regarding this new policy, click here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-066.html.

Institutional PI Signature Compliance Requirement Added to eIS Form

As detailed last month in this section of Research WebNotes (http://www.hopkins
medicine.org/webnotes/grants/0605.cfm#3), the institutional compliance requirement has been added to the eIS form. Although PI s are no longer required to sign the application, the institution is required to retain a unique signature and date for each application. Therefore, effective all PIs on an application must sign the eIS to meet the institutional compliance requirement. When an eIS is printed, the following statement appears before the PI signature:

"By signing this form, the Principal Investigator on this project certifies:

1. that the information submitted within the application is true, complete and accurate to the best of the PI's knowledge;
2. that any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or claims may subject the PI to criminal, civil, or administrative penalties; and
3. that the PI agrees to accept responsibility for the scientific conduct of the project and to provide the required progress reports if a grant is awarded as a result of the application."

Submit Funded Research Articles to NIH and PubMed Central

Since May 2, 2005, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy has requested that researchers funded by NIH submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts that have been accepted for publication to PubMed Central (PMC). Link to the NIH manuscript submission page (http://www.nihms.nih.gov/) to submit, or to review Frequently Asked Questions. See also a list of journals (http://www.pubmedcentral.
nih.gov/front-page/fp.fcgi?cmd=full_view) that automatically deposit your work into PMC.

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