ORA News Online
Volume 4 Number 36.........................................Week Ending 11/15/02

 

WHAT'S NEW?
Cost Sharing Policy is Revised

To provide a clarification Section 4 of the cost sharing policy has been revised with the following text.

4. Cost Sharing Does Not Include (revised 11/06/02):

a) Percent effort of personnel listed in the Current and Pending Support Section of a proposal, unless specifically identified as cost sharing, and for the current proposal being submitted as long as funds have been requested from the Sponsor for the effort listed.

Caution: Any percent effort of personnel identified within the current proposal being submitted for which no funding is requested from the Sponsor is considered cost sharing and appropriate approvals are required in accordance with the University's cost sharing.

b) Voluntary uncommitted cost sharing. For Example: The Principal Investigator or Project Director of a grant funded project may chose to work at a level of 25% effort rather than the 20% effort as budgeted for in the proposal being funded. This additional 5% effort is defined as voluntary uncommitted cost sharing and such effort should be accurately reported in the University's Time and Effort Reporting System, but not accounted for in the University's cost sharing system.

Any questions regarding this policy revision, please contact Brian Prindle, Associate Director of Research at 392-1582 or e-mail at prindle@ufl.edu (Posted 11/15/02)

INTERNAL DEADLINES
 
NEW FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES

Certain agencies announce Requests for Applications that limit the number of proposals that can be submitted by the University. In these instances, the Office for Research Affairs will post an internal deadline for interested faculty to submit a Letter of Intent to the Office for Research Affairs.

If there are more applicants interested in submitting a proposal than the agency's guidelines allow for, an internal review process will be coordinated by ORA. ORA will only coordinate the requests that are specifically for health related projects. RGP will coordinate all other requests. There is not always a candidate who applies for an award. If you are interested in a funding opportunity and the internal deadline has passed, check with ORA to see if this opportunity is still available.


Upcoming Internal Deadline

Pfizer is accepting proposals 2003 Scholars Grants for Faculty Development in Women's Health. Applications are due to ORA for an internal competition by November 15, 2002.

Pfizer is accepting proposals 2003 Scholars Grants for Faculty Development in Pediatric Health. Applications are due to ORA for an internal competition by November 22, 2002.

Pfizer is accepting proposals 2003 Scholars Grants for Faculty Development in Clinical Epidemiology. Applications are due to ORA for an internal competition by November 22, 2002. (Posted 11/15/02)

Contact Dr. Madsen with questions related to funding opporunities or internal competitions. (Posted 11/15/02)

  

Pfizer is accepting proposals "2003 Pfizer Professorship Program in Pain Medicine". Applications are due to ORA for an internal competition by December 02, 2002. Only one application from each institution will be accepted. For an application, Click here. (Posted 11/15/02)

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation is accepting applications for "Comprehensive Programs to Strengthen Physicians" Training in Geriatrics". Mandatory Letters of Intent are due to the ORA for an internal competition by December 20, 2002. (Posted 11/15/02)

Pfizer is accepting proposals "2003 Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants in Biological Psychiatry". Applications are due to ORA for an internal competition by December 20, 2002. Only one application from each institution will be accepted. For an application, Click here. (Posted 11/15/02)

Pfizer is accepting proposals "2003 Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pain Medicine". Applications are due to ORA for an internal competition by December 27, 2002. Only one application from each institution will be accepted. For an application, Click here. (Posted 11/15/02)

Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company is accepting nominations for the "Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Research Award". Nominations are due to the company by March 6, 2003. For an application, Click here. (Posted 11/15/02)

For funding opportunities annouced by Research and Graduate Programs FYI http://rgp.ufl.edu/fyi/

New NIH notices, requests for applications and program announcements can be found at NIH Notice.
CONFERENCES WORKSHOPS

The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW/NIH) will co- sponsor the Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) Winter Conference, "Challenges in Laboratory Animal Research and IACUC Responsibility." The meeting will be held December 9-10, 2002, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and additional co-sponsors are the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Tulane University. The SCAW symposium will include a variety of
topics relevant to IACUCs, such as crisis planning, Federal compliance, industry strategies, euthanasia, end-points, and IACUC training.

Conference agenda and a registration form are available at the SCAW website: http://www.scaw.com/winter%20conference.htm. [NOTE: ONE MUST USE INTERNET EXPLORER, not Netscape, to access this website.] (Posted 11/15/02)

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