NIH issued Notice NOT-OD-22-182 to inform the applicant community that eRA Application Submission System and Interface for Submission Tracking (ASSIST) will no longer support all application form versions prior to FORMS-E by the end of August 2022.

For more information, refer to Notice NOT-OD-22-182.

Effective July 1, 2022, the IRS has increased mileage to 62.5 cents per mile for the last six months of 2022. This update is reflected in Concur when requesting mileage rates.

For more information, refer to the IRS notice dated June 9, 2022.

NIST will launch a new iEdison system on Tuesday, August 9, as the management of the system changes hands from NIH eRA to NIST (see NIH Guide Notices NOT-OD-22-158 and NOT-OD-22-100). In preparation for the transition and transfer of data, the current iEdison system will be unavailable for a week from August 2 through August 8. All existing data and any attachments on individual invention and... Read more about New iEdison System Launch: Prepare for Downtime & Transition

To provide further clarification, OSP updated the $1,000 threshold language in the Cost Transfer (CT) policy from “A  single direct cost of $1,000 or less” to “The original transaction as posted to the General Ledger was $1,000 or less." The following documents were edited due to this change effective 7/6/2022:

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The Statement of Intent (SOI) form was updated to include a new Data Exchange question under the Project Information section.  

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Buy-to-Pay (B2P) will be unavailable due to a planned 22.2 maintenance release.

• Starts: Friday, July 15, 5pm
• Ends: Sunday, July 17, 12pm

GMAS will be unavailable beginning at 6PM on Friday July 15th. This outage is to support the upcoming July 2022 release scheduled to be available by the start of business on Monday July 18th. The focus of this release includes enhancements to support new notification preferences and a new daily digest.

For more information, refer to the GMAS announcement. For full release notes, visit the... Read more about GMAS Update: July 2022 Release

The HUIT PI Dashboard team is finalizing preparations for the annual fiscal year/balance forward rollover process (ie. rolling over the balances for non-sponsored accounts to the new fiscal year). This year, the rollover is scheduled for Monday evening, August 8, 2022.
 
You may run FY22 year-end versions of the Non Sponsored account reports in the PI Dashboard between the first business day after the third closing (expected to be Monday, July 20) and before 5 pm on the day of the production fiscal year cutover (expected to be Monday, August 8... Read more about PI Dashboard Annual Fiscal Year & Balance Forward Schedule FY22-23

AHRQ released NOT-HS-22-018 to announce a change in the minimum effort requirement for individual mentored K awards funded by AHRQ for surgeons with active surgical duties. Surgeons require significant clinical activity to maintain their clinical competency skills and may be unable to devote the required minimum level of effort of at least 9 person-months (75%). AHRQ will now allow surgeons to devote less than nine person-months of effort (i.e., 75% of full-time... Read more about Guidance for Surgeon Effort Level on AHRQ Individual Mentored K Awards

Institutions receiving funds from Public Health Service (PHS) agencies such as NIH must conduct research in accordance with the PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. As part of this process, institutions must have an approved animal welfare assurance on file with the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) in order to receive PHS support on activities involving animals. But what exactly does this process entail?... Read more about NIH All About Grants Podcast: Animal Welfare Assurances

What is inflation? The US Federal Reserve defines inflation as “the increase in the prices of goods and services over time.” Prices for research project grants may increase over time for a variety of reasons. The June 29, 2022 Open Mike Blog discusses how inflation has been relevant to NIH Research Project Grants (RPG), the largest component of extramural NIH funding. 

The Dean's Office is pleased to announce that Kate Calvin has accepted the position of Executive Dean for Administration at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; her first day will be July 11. Kate will oversee the Offices of Financial Services, Operations, Information Technology, Human Resources, and Sponsored Programs Administration.

OSP has posted new federal rate agreements for all Harvard rate areas. All rate agreements are dated June 17, 2022.

• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Rate Agreement
• Harvard University Rate Agreement...

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Thinking about a career in research or wondering how to move forward in your journey to becoming an independent researcher? Browse NIH programs by career path to learn more about eligibility, current funding opportunities, and more.

While you’re there, check out these interactive guides that walk you through how NIH programs can support you at different career steps on the path to becoming a:

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NIH released NOT-OD-11-160 to announce the Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) webinar.

The NIH Strategic Plan to Advance Research on the Health and Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Minorities FY 2021-2025 includes goals and objectives that aim to increase and improve (... Read more about NIH's Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) Announces Regional Workshop