MU Grants Community,
Please take note of the
following:
- NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution
(NOT-OD-15-001)
The
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including NIH, operates under
the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015 signed by President Obama on
September 19, 2014. The Continuing Resolution continues government
operations through December 11, 2014 at 99.9 percent of the FY 2014 enacted
level.
NIH
will issue non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated
on the most recent Notice of Award (generally up to 90% of the previously
committed level). Upward adjustments to awarded levels will be considered after
FY 2015 appropriations are enacted, but NIH expects institutions to monitor
their expenditures carefully during this period. All legislative mandates that
were in effect in FY 2014 (see NOT-OD-14-053 and NOT-OD-14-046)
remain in effect under this CR including the salary limitation set at Executive
Level II of the Federal Pay Scale as described in NOT-OD-14-052.
- Webinars on What You Need to Know About NIH Application
Submission and Review
(NOT-OD-15-002)
The NIH
Center for Scientific Review (CSR) will host four Meet the Experts in NIH Peer
Review Webinars in early November 2014 to give new NIH grant applicants and
others useful insights into the submission and peer review processes.
- Use of New Inclusion Management System Required as of
October 17, 2014
(NOT-OD-15-005)
On October 17, 2014, NIH
will release a new Inclusion Management System (IMS) for reporting sex/gender,
race, and ethnicity information as required by the NIH Policy on
the Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Clinical Research. The
existing system was retired for
grantee use in non-competing progress reports in July
2014. The new IMS will take advantage of the structured inclusion data
being collected on competing applications to pre-populate inclusion data
records and allow grantees to directly manage their inclusion data in the
system throughout the awarded project period.
Should
you have questions about the applicability of these policies to current or
anticipated projects, please contact your OSPA Pre-Award
or Post-Award staff.