Dhanonjoy C Saha, PhD Director, Office of Grant Support (OGS) October 2, 2015.

Dhanonjoy C Saha, PhDDirector, Office of Grant Support

(OGS)

October 2, 2015

The Office of Grant Support (OGS) is comprised of only three individuals who provide pre-award administrative assistance to the College community Our goal is to enable faculty scholars to submit grant proposals and to manage subsequent non-financial responsibilities of the award, resubmission, and renewal processes

Helps develop or review proposal budgets Reviews and ensures pre-submission

regulatory requirements Helps with creating and managing

electronic grant submissions Assists with required registrations for

submissions Helps submissions of grant proposals to

granting agencies or sponsors Negotiates budgets and other related

terms and conditions of the awards with the sponsors

Manages Awards Committee nominations (for limited submissions)

Helps with submission of non-competing applications, Just-in-Time, Supplemental Materials, RPPR and ….

Assists with communications or communicates with grant-making agencies

Helps with submitting Relinquishing Statements and preparing Final Invention Statements

Helps with finding resources for improving grant applications

Find funding opportunities -- small or large grants -- state, federal, private, foundation

Target dissemination of funding opportunities to interested trainees and faculty members

Interpret proposal guidelines and help with building application materials-- eligibility, forms, institutional data and ….

Demystify DoD, NIH, NSF and other federal and non-federal policies, procedures, and jargons

Grantsmanship: assist with team-building, writing, editing, proofreading, proposal review and critique and creating more competitive proposals

Visit us at - http://www.einstein.yu.edu/administration/grant-support/

Studies show that receiving funding correlates with services provided by the research administration (Grant Support) – faculty-administration partnership

Higher expectations increase efficiency – provided that tools are provided

(Caution) expediency should not be confused with efficiency

Must maintain a balance between effectiveness and efficiency depending upon our requirements

Faculty partners should be receptive to receive services provided and administration should be able to provide services to decrease administrative burden of the faculty

Building relationship with funding agencies Reviewing federal registrar and related

meeting minutes – contacting responsible person – starting discussion – keeping engaged

Generating and communicating ideas, writing white papers

Reading BAA – communicating with appropriate agencies and program officers – writing white papers – prequalifying as service providers

Both cases will generate RFA or RFP in due course – success rate is very high

Inviting Federal/Foundation/Sponsor program officers soliciting ideas as to their priority areas aligning our priority areas with theirs developing programs and preparing for the

announcement Tapping into the discretionary funding or

taking advantage of idea-sharing, or tapping into the sub-contract with otherwise successful awardees

Talking to local politicians and legislators and pursuing our goals – engaging faculty as research communicators

Making contact at the granting agencies and making trips to meet them in Washington, DC – making ourselves visible – in front of their eyes

 SciVal Funding – subscription – free for Einstein- Montefiore http://www.einstein.yu.eduInfoEd SPIN – subscription – free for limited programs http://spin2000.infoed.org/new_spin/spinmain.aspGrants.gov – free http://www.grants.gov/applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jspFoundation Center Finding Funders – free http://www.fdncenter.org/funders/NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts – free http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.htmlNSF Guide to Programs – free http://www.nsf.gov/fundingGrantsNet – free http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/fundingNew York State GrantsGateway – free. https://www.grantsgateway.ny.govMany more …

 COS Funding Opportunities Database – subscription. http://fundingopps2.cos.com/InfoEd SPIN – subscription. http://spin2000.infoed.org/new_spin/spinmain.aspGrantForward – subscription. https://www.grantforward.com/index ResearchResearch – subscription. http://www.researchresearch.comFoundation Directory Online Platinum – subscription. http://fconline.fdncenter.org/Grant $elect – subscription. http://www.grantselect.com/Many more …

http://www.einstein.yu.edu/ This database contains about 21,000 active

funding opportunities, 5.8 million awarded grants and about 9,000 funding bodies

Go to our website, click Research, then click Collaboration Zone, then click Sci Val Funding Site

Build your own profile/criteria for the funding opportunities

You will find many useful resources by clicking on the “Innovative Collaboration Tool,” then “Investigators Resources” and “Einstein Research Profiles”

http://spin2000.infoed.org/new_spin/spinmain.asp

SPIN includes opportunities in all disciplines and is extensive. Covers almost all federal and many private foundation grants. You may be able to do some searches for free

Choose “Advanced Search” from the main search screen

Then select keywords, applicant types, award types, citizenship, geographic restrictions, and locations tenable

Search by status (junior faculty, postdoctoral and so on), - an especially useful feature

http://www.fdncenter.org/funders/ Basic information on private and

community foundations, and corporate grantmakers in the U.S.

Search by name of foundation or sector (type of foundation)

Look at annotated list of grantmakers’ web sites

Current opportunities are in PND (Philanthropy News Digest); clicking on it then clicking on the RFPs

http://www.grants.gov/applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jsp

US Federal funding opportunities from all agencies. SEARCH Grants.gov for your federal grants by keywords or more specific criteria. All discretionary grants offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies can be found on Grants.gov

National Science Foundation (NSF) http://www.nsf.gov/funding Provides general descriptions of funding

programs for all NSF directorates Department of Defense (DoD) –

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/default.shtml

http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html NIH Guide announcements are published

daily. On Friday afternoon, NIH transmits an e-mail to NIH Guide LISTSERV subscribers with the Table of Contents (TOC), including links to announcements published during the week

To Subscribe to the NIH Guide LISTSERV, send an email to [email protected] with the following text in the message body (not the "Subject" line):  subscribe NIHTOC-L your name  (Example:

subscribe NIHTOC-L  Bill Jones)  Your e-mail address will be automatically

obtained from the e-mail message and add you to the LISTSERV

https://www.grantsgateway.ny.gov It is a NYS central electronic portal for all

New York State Grants and Contracts Log in and browse for funding

opportunities It also has alert services for new funding

opportunities. You can sign up under “Notification”

New Investigator:  An NIH research grant Program Director/ Principal Investigator (PD/PI) who has not yet competed successfully for a substantial, competing NIH research grant is considered a New Investigator.  However, a PD/PI who has received a Small Grant (R03) or an Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) retains his or her status as a New Investigator.      Early Stage Investigator (ESI):  An individual who is classified as a New or First-Time Investigator and is within 10 years of completing his/her terminal research degree or is within 10 years of completing medical residency (or the equivalent) is considered an Early Stage Investigator (ESI).

More information athttp://grants.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/index.htm

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

First Try13.4 (134) 9.5 (137) 9.1 (132) 6.9 (159) 6.8 (147)

Second Try 23.3 (30) 30.8 (52) 35.6 (45)

25.9 (54) 28.6 (49)

Third Try 26.3 (19) 0.0 (6)

Einstein Overall 16.4 14.9 15.8 11.7 12.2

NIH Overall 18.0 15.0 15.0 14.0 15.4

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

First Try 34 (41) 26 (35) 24 (38) 42 (31) 35 (34)

Second Try 27 (15) 70 (10) 30 (20) 42 (12) 47 (19)

Third Try 36 (11) 33 (3)

Overall 54 49 39 58 62

NIH Overall 41 40 41 37 50

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Pathway to Independence Award-Research Phase (R00)

Small Grant (R03)Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)

Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) Research Education Grants (R25, R90, RL9, RL5) Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34) Dissertation Award (R36) Small Business Technology Transfer Grant-Phase I

(R41, UT1) Small Business Innovation Research Grant-Phase I

(R43,  U43)Shannon Award (R55) NIH High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56) Competitive Research Pilot Projects (SC2, SC3) Resource Access Award (X01)

Training-Related and Mentored Career Awards

All Fellowships (F awards) All individual and institutional career awards

(K awards)              Loan repayment contracts (L30, L32, L40, L50,

L60) All training grants (T32, T34, T35, T90, D43) Instrumentation, Construction,

Education, Health Disparity Endowment Grants, or Meeting Awards G07, G08, G11, G13, G20 R13 S10, S15, S21, S22

Pathway to Independence Award (K99-R00)  The PI award program is designed to facilitate a timely transition from a mentored postdoctoral research position to a stable independent research position with independent NIH or other independent research support. 

NIH Director’s New Innovator Award This award addresses two important goals: stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising early stage investigators. Many new investigators have exceptionally innovative research ideas, but not the preliminary data required to fare well in the traditional NIH peer review system.

Search grants -- http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=new%20investigator

Research grants that combine a smaller initial award that transitions without further competition to a second phase supported by a substantial, independent research grant will discontinue the New Investigator status for the PD/PI(s) at the point of transition to the larger award. This includes combined, transitional awards like the R21/R33, SBIR/STTR Fast-Track (R42, UT2, R44, U44), UH2/UH3.

For general information, please contact the Office of Grant Support at (718) 430-3643 or [email protected]

For budget -- Gerard McMorrow at (718) 430 3580 or [email protected]

For Cayuse, eRA Commons and any other help -- Regina Jenicki at (718) 430-3643 or [email protected]

For any other help -- D. C Saha at (718) 430-3642 or [email protected]