Roles & Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities Pertaining to NIH Grant Disclosure

 

Principal Investigators and Key Personnel

Principal Investigators and Key Personnel are expected to be forthright and transparent about relationships, resources, and activities.  Investigators and Key Personnel will provide a complete and accurate disclosure on their Biosketch and Other Support.  This includes:

  1. Collecting their disclosure information from GMAS, OAIR, and the DUA Agreements Module.
    • The “Other Support and Activities” download option that consolidates information from these systems will be available within GMAS on January 17, 2022.
  2. For NIH Other Support disclosures: providing any required unredacted agreements, with English translation if the original is in a foreign language.
  3. Working with their Grant Manager to complete your submission
  4. Certifying with their electronic signature the completeness and accuracy of the final Other Support document with your electronic signature prior to submission to NIH
 

Grant Managers

Grant Managers will assist PIs and Key Personnel in organizing, formatting, and completing their submission.  This includes:

  1. Obtaining the disclosure information from the PI or Key Personnel.
  2. Working with the PI or Key Personnel to complete the form.
  3. Formatting and reviewing for completeness and accuracy.
  4. For NIH Other Support disclosures: ensuring required supporting documentation, including original agreements and English translations, is attached, prior to obtaining PI signature
 

School or Central Reviewers

School or Central Reviewers will coordinate with Grant Managers and PIs or Key Personnel to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the submission.  This includes:

  1. Reviewing Biosketch and Other Support for completeness and accuracy.
  2. Reviewing Contracts/Agreements submitted by the PIs and other Key Personnel for inclusion on Other Support.
  3. For NIH Other Support disclosures: Ensuring required supporting documentation, including original agreements and English translations, is attached.
  4. Maintaining original signed (certified) copies of Other Support.
  5. Submitting finalized Biosketch and Other Support to NIH.