New NIH Biosketch Required After May 25th

As announced by NIH several months ago,  the format for biosketches is changing.    (NOT-OD-15-032) The new format can be found in the biosketch section of the SF424 (R&R) Application and Electronic Submission Information page. Applicants are encouraged to use the new format immediately for all grant and cooperative agreement. The new format is required for due dates on or after May 25, 2015. In addition to the standard biosketch format, NIH also has a Fellowship-specific format for individual predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, dissertation research grants (R36), and Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Suppl). 

Please review information and resources including links to MyNCBI and videos listed on the OSP website at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~osp/resources/policies/newnihbiosketch.html

​ OSP and Finance Centers Rollout New On-line approvals for Wage and Cost Transfers Effective March 30, 2015, all Wage Transfers, Cost Transfers and Simple Re-Class SPUD Journals will need to be electronically submitted using OnBase.  Approvers, including Principal Investigators will receive notifications of transactions requiring their approval.   The policy related to wage and cost transfers is based upon OMB regulations and serves as a key internal control to assure timely reconciliation and corrections.  The PI approval is required at certain timing and dollar thresholds.  We appreciate your cooperation.  Please refer to the OSP website for further details

RAPPORT Grants is Live

On March 18th, Dartmouth successfully deployed the next phase of RAPPORT, our research administration portal for grant applications.  For updated user guides, frequently asked questions and other help, please refer to the OSP website at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~osp/resources/rapgrants.html

Here are few quick tips or answers:

Notices  

We realize that Principal Investigators, Administrators and other Approvers will see more email notifications from Rapport.  However, it is important to note that the timing and frequency of notifications are actually less than you might have received in the past when individuals involved in proposal preparation and review sent countless emails to each other to prompt, prod, cajole or followup on certain transactions.  

When can I expect to receive a notification and why?

Activity Process	Notific​ation	Rationale for Notification	What You Do
Proposal Routing	Requests that the PI complete the PI Routing Approval	Answer questions that are best answered by the PI, start process to route to Chair	Click the PI Routing Approval activity and Answer compliance and other questions and hit “ok”
Proposal Review	OSP Request Changes	OSP Grants Officer conveying important information related to your proposal	Review and respond either directly or through your DRA
Proposal Review	PI and Senior Key Personnel prompted to review their Conflict of Interest information and update as needed	Conflict of interest disclosures are required to be updated per government and institutional policies	Login to COI system and review and update your financial disclosures
Proposal Submission	PI is asked to give the green light to submit the proposal	Regulatory requirement for a final signoff upload the final package	Certify for submission
Award Receipt	NOA Received	Attaches the award Starts process of award review and set up	Congratulations!  Celebrate and let us know if questions
Award Review	OSP Requests Information	Perhaps we didn’t get the final proposal?  Maybe we want to verify an approval for IRB?	Review the notification and respond to your Grants Officer
Award Activation or Modification	Grant Account and Award Information including OGA string	Account number  and modifications to award	No response required Review the notice Contact OSP if questions or concerns

 

 

Proposal Types

RAPPORT Grants now has significantly more functions for submitting additional proposal types.  Previously, RAPPORT could only submit new applications to grants.gov.  Now, RAPPORT can submit more proposals types to grants.gov.  In addition, the system is used for routing and approval of all proposals even proposals that don't go to grants.gov.

 

To understand the new proposal types available in RAPPORT, take a few minutes to review the "proposal starting points" below.  Any proposal type that isn't "new" has a starting point from either a previously submitted proposal or an award.  The functions that all creation of a proposal "jump off" of an award for a competing renewal for example.  The advantage is that the system automatically links related proposals and copies over key information.

 

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