The Office of Sponsored Projects serves as a central resource to support the research enterprise at Dartmouth by providing guidance and stewardship for the research community and the College.
Revised Conflict of Interest regulations announced by the Public Health Service in August 2011 require that all PHS-funded key personnel** receive training in Financial Conflict of Interest, the investigator's responsibilities regarding disclosure of significant financial interests, and the regulations themselves. Education is mandated "prior to engaging in research related to any PHS-funded grant and at least every four years, and immediately" when any of several conditions apply, such as a change in institutional policy, a researcher is new to the institution, or when a researcher is found to be out of compliance.
*PHS agencies include: NIH, ACF, AoA , AHRQ, ATSDR, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, SAMHS
**Key Personnel is defined as anyone responsible for the design, conduct, or reporting of research. This may include consultants or collaborators.
Read more and/or register for RCOI Education
At the last OSP Roundtable our office provided a brief overview of the process improvements with regards to departments doing cost reallocations (Cost Transfers, Wage Transfers and SPUD Journals) involving PTA Accounts.
We anticipate implementing these changes at the beginning of April. However before doing so, we would like to have a training session to go over these process improvements in greater detail.
To help make this more convenient for people to attend, we will have one session On Campus and one session Off Campus. To be clear each session will be covering the same material, so you only need to attend one session.
Here are the Day, Location and Time for these sessions:
|
On Campus |
DHMC |
No RSVP is required, you can just show up.
As announced at the round table last month, Renee Brown and Christine Bothe are moving their primary offices to the OSP's campus office, at 11 Rope Ferry Road.
Given Christine’s recent promotion to Associate Director, the single location will balance accessibility at DHMC with promoting a cohesive pre-award and postaward group. Having two locations has been rewarding in many ways (visibility, getting paper signatures) and challenging in others (meeting with OSP staff on campus, sharing files, equipment, etc). More and more applications are electronic. We feel that we will be just as efficient while maintaining accessibilty to all areas of the College.
Please note that OSP will keep regular office hours at DHMC on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The schedule will be released soon. Again, we are happy to meet with faculty and staff in their offices upon request.
Please let OSP Director Jill Mortali know if you have any questions or concerns or wish to discuss this in more detail. Please contact Christine Bothe at 646-3097, if you have questions concerning proposals.
From NIH: For FY 2012, the Consolidated Appropriations Action, 2012 (Public Law 112-74) signed into law on December 23, 2011 lowered the salary limitation on NIH Grants from Executive Level I ($199,700) to Executive Level II ($179,700). This change is effective with grant awards with an Initial Issue Date on/After 12/23/2011. See NIH Guide Notice NOT- OD-12-035 for additional details. The Summary Table and Questions and Answers are provided by NIH as resources to help navigate implementation of this change.
The table NIH has posted summarizes the applicable Executive Level salary limitation for the 2 cohorts of FY2012 grants:
Some explanatory notes are provided for each cohort.
See also the PowerPoint slides from the OSP Roundtable presenation on February 2, 2012.
The RAPPORT Project is a web-based integrated research administration system that will include:
RAPPORT is in the early stages of development and is being designed, built, and implemented to streamline administrative processes while reducing administrative burden on faculty and staff and maintaining regulatory compliance.
For more information, visit the RAPPORT web site.
As you might be aware, on August 25, 2011 the Department of Health and Human Services published new rules for the disclosure and management of significant financial interests of investigators (see: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coi/). These are the first revisions to the regulations since 1995 and will require changes in our existing policies and procedures regarding conflict of interest, as well as the introduction of newly required components, such as mandatory training and reporting. Dartmouth has until August 24, 2012 to comply with these new rules. Read more . . .
The on-line system has now been operational for over ten months. The new system provides many improvements over the former paper-based disclosure process; it links disclosures to proposals, enables all key personnel to make a disclosure at the time of proposal submission, and offers a straightforward means for disclosures to be updated. The new process helps ensure that we remain in compliance with federal regulations and that we continue to maintain high integrity in Dartmouth's research activities. The system has enabled a move from a paper-based annual process to an electronic process for each grant proposal. Read more . . .
Effective January 18, 2011, all proposals to the National Science Foundation must include a Data Management Plan in the form of a supplementary document of up to two pages that describes how a proposal will conform to NSF's data sharing policy. OSP has teamed together with Research Computing, the Dartmouth College Library, and the Office of the Provost to produce a guide to data management at Dartmouth.
The NIH Grants Policy Statement has been revised. The revised version includes policy changes and clarifications, new chapters, an updated numbering schema, and more.
Beginning with due dates on or after January 25, 2011, NIH, AHRQ and NIOSH will eliminate the error correction window from the application submission process. NIH will continue to make accommodations for Federal system issues that threaten or prevent on-time submission of an individual application, if appropriately documented and verified by NIH support staff. Moreover, NIH still will determine and implement contingency plans on an as-needed basis for widespread system issues and natural disasters. The elimination of the error correction window does not affect the two-business-day application viewing window.
As of January 2010, the National Science Foundation will require that at the time of proposal submission Dartmouth has a plan to provide “appropriate training and oversight in the responsible and ethical conduct of research.” In response, we have identified programs that can be used to meet this new requirement
Funding Opportunites
Proposal PreparationAward ManagementOSP Manuals |
News & Bulletins
|
