Yale to Implement On-Line Effort Reporting System The Office of Research Administration is pleased to announce a new initiative to reduce compliance risk by raising awareness and improving tools for certifying effort. Last spring, administrators from the Yale School of Medicine and central campus evaluated commercial effort reporting products and selected MAXIMUS, Inc.’s online effort certification system. The new software is a secure, web-based application for reviewing and certifying effort on sponsored projects. It will be used by faculty, principal investigators and other officials responsible for managing personnel paid from sponsored projects as well as business office staff responsible for the management of salaries charged to sponsored projects. |
NIH CSR to Abolish Deadlines for Chartered Reviewers
The NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) recognizes that reviewers often must prepare and submit their own grant applications during the time they are reviewing and participating in study section meetings. In an effort to reward its reviewers for their many sacrifices and to provide them with greater flexibility in submitting applications the NIH Center for Scientific Review has announced plans to permit appointed members of all chartered CSR study sections to submit—at any time—their R01, R03, R21, R34 and R15 applications intended for the standing due dates (not special dates for RFAs and PARs). Such applications would be guaranteed a review within 90 days of receipt and would be referred to the appropriate NIH Institute Advisory Council for the next possible round.
NSF Issues New Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide
The NSF has issued a New Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide effective for proposals received by the agency on or after January 5, 2008. The guide can be viewed in either HTML or pdf format on the nsf publications webpage A Summary of the significant changes is provided in the full text of the article.
A Guide to Conflict of Interest Disclosure at Yale
Why Does Yale Have This Policy and Process?
Yale University is committed to the idea that a great university should reach out to the world. Thus, faculty and staff are encouraged to participate in sponsored research, to consult widely and to engage in activities that may benefit not only the participants and the University but also the public at large.
There is little doubt that such interactions play an important role in the transfer of knowledge and technological advances from the University to the community. It is also true however, that as the number and complexity of university-industry relationships has increased there has been a corresponding increase in public concern that financial conflicts of interest may introduce bias into research, compromise dissemination of research results and delay trainee progress.
Unaddressed these concerns can lead to a decrease in public confidence in the results of academic research.
In 1995 the NIH and NSF, issued coordinated regulations designed to assure the objectivity of research funded by these federal agencies. The regulations require institutions to develop their own policies and procedures for review and management of investigator financial conflicts of interest.
Yale established its policy on Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment both to assure the public that objective standards have been applied to the design conduct and reporting of research, uninfluenced by an investigator’s personal financial interests and to comply with federal regulations.
The Policy requires annual disclosure of outside activities and financial interests.
Did You Know?
- eRA Commons Accounts Are Transferable - Principal Investigator's eRA Commons Accounts are assigned one time and follow an investigator for his or her entire career. Read more to learn how to manage this process.
- GCA and GCFA Launch Newsletter- The Offices of Grant and Contract Administration and Grant and Contract Finanancial Administration have a new quaterly newsletter.
Research Administration Training Opportunities
A listing of dates and times for Faculty and Business Office Grant Managment Training
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Who You Gonna Call?
There are new staff members and new responsibilities in the Offices of Grant and Contract Administration and in the Office of Grant and Contract Financial Administration.
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