Grants

Putting it All Together

Funding Opportunity Sources

• Grants.gov – email notification available Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)

• NIH – weekly listserveProgram Announcements (PA)Request for Applications (RFA)

Request for Proposal (RFP)

• Private Foundations

Prepare to Apply

• Download application package Check receipt dates, applicant

requirements Letter of intent? Online? Paper?

Register? • Contact Admin.Officer or Grants

Manager 4 weeks prior to due date

Proposal Development

• Title• Abstract• Key Personnel Determine available effort

• Other Significant Contributors Obtain Letters of Support

• Budget• Resources Institutional resources: Core resources, clinical

facilities etc.

Forms and Protocols

Internal forms• Proposal Transmittal Form Signed by PI, PI Dept Chair; CRC, Hospital as needed;

Dept Chair of all Key Personnel

• Conflict of Interest Form Signed by PI and all Key Personnel on Federal Grants

• Budget Internal budget submitted with all proposals, even

modular

Proposal Transmittal Form

DETAILED BUDGET FOR

INITIAL BUDGET PERIOD

DIRECT COSTS ONLY

                 

                 

BUDGET FOR ENTIRE PROPOSED PROJECT

PERIOD

DIRECT COSTS ONLY

NIH Forms and Documents

• Face Page (fp1)• Abstract and Key Personnel (fp2)• Table of Contents (fp3)• Budgets (fp4 and fp5 or modular)• Biosketches• Resources• Continuation pages-used for Research Plan

& Budget Justification• Checklist• Personal Data Page

Face PageTitle

PA, RFA, RFP?PI info

New Investigator?Humans?Animals?

Institutional infoInstitutional Signature

Abstract and Key Personnel

Table of Contents

Modular Budget

different modules

($25,000 per module;

$250,000 per yearmaximum for R01)

Modular Budgetsame

modules ($25,000 per

module;$250,000 per

yearmaximum for

R01)

BiosketchPrincipaI

Investigator Co-investigators

Other Significant Contributors

Resources

Resources

Last Page

!Checklist

Original Copy Only!

PersonalData Page

TIMELINEPrior to Submission

• 4 Weeks- begin work with Administrator• 1 week- to Dept for Review• 3 days- to OGCM for Review

!Good Score!• Prepare and submit animal & IRB

protocols• Notifiy administrator- prepare for JIT• Just-in-Time (other support- IACUC-IRB

approvals)

COEUS

• Web-based proposal preparation– Some 398 docs used- uploaded – Institutional information pre-filled– Basic format same as paper– Used for all proposal preparations- NIH,

AHA, DOD etc. Interfaces with agency applications and Grants.gov

• NIH applications- eRA user name required

LINKS• From VUMC homepage:

– Research support services– http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php?site=support– List of Research Centers:– http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/medschool/centers.php – GCRC http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/gcrc/ Information on resources available through GCRC – Office of Research– https://medschool.mc.vanderbilt.edu/oor/

• Grants Management http://www.vanderbilt.edu/oor/gcm/resources/tidbits.pdf • Funding opportunities• Animal Care• IRB• IACUC• Research Core Facilities links and description

MORE LINKS

• http://www.grants.gov/

• http://www.nih.gov/

• http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm

• https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/

VUMC Institutiona

l Informatio

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Proposal Fact Sheet

from Office of Research website(Grants-toolkit)

Questions? Please call or email

Glenna Osborn, Grants ManagerDivision of Clinical PharmacologyVanderbilt University Medical Center538 Robinson Research Bldg.glenna.osborn@vanderbilt.eduphone: 615-936-7835fax: 615-936-5178