Please join us in rejoicing with
colleagues for achievements that have become known since last issue.
Distinguished Professor Robert
Cess has garnered another honor. In addition to the Jule G. Charney
Award, he has also been elected a Fellow of the American
Meteorological Society. Only .2% of the AMS membership are approved
as Fellows each year. Please join me in congratulating Bob on this
outstanding achievement.
Assistant Director Erika Geimonen,
Ph.D., is a featured participant in a roundtable on "Technology
Transfer Do's and Don'ts," which may be found on pp. 22-25 of the
November-December issue of
Genomics & Proteomics, an industry trade publication.
The SBU Radiological Protection Service is pleased to announce that
the NYSDOH/BERP inspection for 2005 is over and the preliminary
exit interview results are excellent:
1) No SBU items of noncompliance
2) No SBU programmatic repeat items of noncompliance
Congratulations to Ed O'Connell who is our RPS Officer and Barbara
Chernow who orchestrated the many participants who made this happen, especially
our faculty.
Opportunities and Sponsor Information
Opportunities for Postdoctoral Researchers:
Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award
This award is intended to assist
outstanding scientists, identified early in their careers, in
launching an innovative research program focusing on problems of
environmental exposures and human biology, human pathophysiology and
human disease. Approximately $3.6 million in FY 2006 funding is
expected to be available for six awards. Applicants may request a
project period of up to five years and a budget for direct costs of
up to $400,000 in years 1-2 and up to $275,000 in years 3-5.
Applicants must have a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent graduate degree.
Applications are due December 21, 2005.
More information is available at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-05-005.htmlml
Opportunities for Graduate Students:
National Defense Science and
Engineering Graduate Fellowship
The Department of Defense (DoD)
is committed to increasing the number and quality of our nation's
scientists and engineers. Toward that end, the DoD annually supports
approximately 8,000 graduate students in fields important to
national defense needs.
These portable fellowships allow
the recipients to pursue their graduate studies at whichever U.S.
institution they choose to attend. The DoD has awarded approximately
2,200 fellowships since the program's inception 17 years ago.
This program seeks to identify
individuals whose scientific and engineering credentials will
support study through doctoral degrees. The prevailing goal is to
provide the United States with talented, doctorally trained American
men and women who will lead state of the art research projects in
disciplines having the greatest payoff to national defense
requirements. The NDSEG Fellowship Program is highly competitive and
confers high honors upon its recipients.
Applicants are responsible for
ensuring the proper submission of each element by the January 6,
2006 deadline. You may go back and edit or update any of your
responses prior to the submission deadline. This allows applicants
to skip over some requested information that is not at hand, correct
errors and omissions, and return to the application later. You may
change your contact information at any time, even after the
submission deadline. All applications will be automatically
submitted electronically at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on
January 6, 2006. The URL for further information and applications
is:
http://www.asee.org/ndseg/.
Research Support:
NIH: New Therapeutic
Interventions
NIH invites
applications for research relevant to the basic understanding and
development of therapeutic interventions for currently screened
conditions and "high priority" genetic conditions for which
screening could be possible in the near future. A "high priority"
condition is defined as a condition for which the development of an
efficacious therapy would make the condition amenable to newborn
screening. For-profit or nonprofit, public or private organizations
may submit applications, which are due on or before the receipt
dates described at
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm.
Exploratory or developmental, research project and small grant
awards are anticipated; the three award mechanisms, respectively,
are detailed in three solicitations available at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-059.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-060.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-061.html
NIH: High Throughput Assays
NIH invites applications for funding to support the development
and adaptation of biological assays for automated high throughput
molecular screening, ultimately to discover new molecular
probes for investigating biological function. Approximately $6
million in FY 2006 funding is expected to be available for 40-50
awards. Eligible are for-profit or nonprofit, public or private
organizations. Optional letters of intent are due Dec. 29, 2005;
applications are due Jan. 12, 2006. More information is
available at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-06-004.html
Availability of Administrative Supplements for
Activities to Promote Research Collaborations for Projects Currently
Funded by the NCI Division of Cancer Biology
The Division of
Cancer Biology (DCB) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites
requests for supplemental funding in fiscal year 2006 for existing
DCB-funded research projects (i.e., administrative supplements) to
support and encourage new multidisciplinary scientific
collaborations among DCB grantees, as well as with other members of
the scientific community. This initiative, known as the Activities
to Promote Research Collaborations (APRC), supports collaborative
interdisciplinary activities that bring together ideas and
approaches from disparate scientific disciplines including those not
currently supported by DCB. Examples of collaborative activities
include, but are not limited to, initiating new collaborative
research projects, sharing unique resources and reagents, developing
novel technologies, and organizing cross-disciplinary
meetings/workshops. It is essential, however, that proposed APRC
activities be within the overall scope of the active parent award
and that the collaborative activity is new.
There is a
single receipt date of February 15, 2006. Requests must be
submitted as described in the APRC program guidelines.
A full
description of the APRC program and the fiscal year 2006 guidelines
can be found at the following web site:
http://dcb.nci.nih.gov/APRC2006.cfm. It details the
opportunities available to DCB grantees for collaborative activities
funded with administrative supplements to their active grants and
the mechanisms for requesting these supplements.
NYSTAR
Crackdown on Delinquent Reports
NYSTAR announced that "Due to historical
non-compliance with contractual reporting requirements, NYSTAR
will...include standard language providing NYSTAR with discretion to
use stronger enforcement options...(including) withholding payment
and/or considering non-compliance for eligibility for future
contracts."
As electronic reporting procedures are put into place for many
granting agencies it is easier for them to determine whose reports
are late. Please do your funding agencies the courtesy of filing
timely reports.
--Contributed by
Gail Habicht, Vice
President for Research, Phone: (631) 632-7932
Upcoming Funding Opportunities
For a complete list of
upcoming deadlines, please go to -
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/fndopp/deadlcal.html
Interdisciplinary Seminars
Please remember that,
in an effort to encourage interdisciplinary research on campus, this
office will supply $100 toward a speaker's luncheon when your
department invites a Stony Brook colleague from an unrelated
discipline to give a seminar. Please contact Ann-Marie Scheidt
amscheidt@notes.cc.sunysb.edu to determine eligibility. You will
be asked to provide a copy of the seminar notice annotated with the
number of attendees and a brief description of any anticipated
collaborations with the speaker's department.
Music for Meetings
Please remember that
the OVPR would like to assist those of you who are planning a
research meeting on campus by providing musical interludes. If you
would like to have Stony Brook student musicians play at the
reception for your meeting it can be arranged by contacting
Ann-Marie Scheidt
amscheidt@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. OVPR will make a payment to the
Department of Music and the Department in turn pays the students.
You get to listen to some nice music.
COGR: Addendum to the NIH Funding Situation
Our federal relations
colleagues at AAU provided this additional information on NIH Notice
OD-NOT 06-014 announcing that the agency will be issuing
non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated
on the most recent Notice of Award (generally up to 80% of the
previously committed level):
From Patrick White at AAU:
Research administrators and faculty should be aware that, in the
absence of an FY06 Labor/HHS Appropriation that has been signed into
law, NIH cannot be any more specific about when or if grantees can
expect to receive 100% of expected funds. In years past, once the
appropriations process has been completed, NIH has paid as much of
non-competing awards as possible, consistent with appropriated
funding.
Find. Apply. Succeed. Grants.gov is Going to Revolutionize Applying
for Federal Grants
The Federal Financial
Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-107)
and the President's Management Agenda have been driving Federal
Agencies to simplify Federal financial assistance application
requirements and create a single website to apply for Federal
assistance. Grants.gov (http://www.grants.gov/)
has been designated by the Office of Management and Budget as the
single access point for the over 1000 grant programs offered by 26
Federal grant-making agencies. It provides a single interface for
agencies to announce their grant opportunities and for all grant
applicants to find and apply for those opportunities. Benefits of
this process include:
-
Receiving grant applications
electronically will create a comprehensive repository of data
that can be mined by knowledge management and other tools.
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The resulting efficiencies
may allow agencies to shorten the cycle from application receipt
to award.
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Electronic receipt will save
an estimated 200,000,000 pieces of paper per year and countless
hours of human effort.
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Electronic Receipt will
reduce scanning, printing, and data-entry costs.
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Electronically received grant
applications offer a clearer grant image that is in color, not
black and white like grant applications on paper.
The Office of
Sponsored Programs has registered the University as an applicant
with Grants.gov and there is no need for individual faculty members
to complete this step. All potential applicants must download the
PureEdge viewer, a tool that will allow you to view and complete the
application materials. The PureEdge Viewer is also available for
non-Windows environments.
The PureEdge Viewer is a small, free program which will allow you to
access, complete and submit applications electronically and securely
on Grants.gov. Grants.gov is currently working with PureEdge to
develop a unified download solution. It is accessible
here.
New users (i.e., users who have never accessed, completed or
submitted applications on Grants.gov) MUST download and install both
the PureEdge Viewer and PureEdge Viewer Upgrade.
Existing users (i.e., users who have previously accessed, completed,
and submitted applications on Grants.gov) MUST download and install
the PureEdge Viewer Upgrade.
After installing the PureEdge Viewer you can start your search for
Federal government-wide grant opportunities and register to receive
automatic email notifications of new grant opportunities as they are
posted to the site by selecting the Find Grant Opportunities tab at
the top of the page.
Once you have located a grant opportunity for which you wish to
apply, check to see if it is available to apply on-line through
Grants.gov by selecting the Apply for Grants tab at the top of the
page. You will need to enter the Funding Opportunity and/or CFDA
number to access the application package and instructions.
Applicants download the complete application package to their
desktops. Opening the forms or uploading PDF files takes place
off-line, and you can go back to your application at any time.
The debut of Grants.gov does not mean that NSF’s Fastlane or NIH’s
eRA Commons, or any of the other agency-specific websites are going
to disappear! Applications will be submitted via Grants.gov, and
agencies will import the materials submitted into their own systems
and all subsequent transactions will take place in Fastlane, eRA
Commons and other agency websites.
There is a tutorial available which walks users through the
application process at
http://www.grants.gov/CompleteApplication#demo
Beginning with the receipt date of Dec. 1, 2005, NIH will require
all its SBIR/STTR grant applicants to electronically submit their
competing grants. NIH plans to transition all of its competing grant
programs one by one from paper to electronic by May 2007. NIH’s
electronic submission timeline is available at
http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt.
NSF is in the process of revising all of its funding opportunities
to incorporate Grants.gov submission requirements. Once the funding
opportunity has been revised and posted to Grants.gov FIND, the
application package will become available in Grants.gov APPLY. Until
the funding opportunity has been revised, applicants must continue
to use the FastLane system to prepare and submit applications to
NSF. Further information about NSF FY 2006 Grants.gov Implementation
Strategy can be found at
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.jsp
-- Contributed by
Peter Saal, Research
Resources Center
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Essential Policies, Procedures and
Resources
Human Resource
Services: Important Winter Reminders and Fall 2005 Newsletter
As we approach the holiday season Human Resource Services provides
guidelines on Winter Holiday dates, reassignments, and other
important information. HRS has prepared two important winter
reminders. One is directed towards Research Foundation employees
that can be found
here. The other one is for West Campus and HSC employees and can
be found
here.
HRS has also released latest "HRS Fall 2005 Newsletter" that can be
found at the following URL under "In the Spotlight." section:
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Admin/HRS.nsf
Procurement
December Newsletter
The December
2005 edition of the Procurement Office Newsletter, "Procurement
News" is available for your viewing. You may access the newsletter
at the Procurement website at
http://www.procurement.stonybrook.edu/news/
School of Medicine
Outreach Office will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 15th
So that all employees of the OVPR can enjoy our annual holiday
party, the Outreach Office will be closed on Thursday, December
15th. Please be sure to take this into consideration when planning
your proposal submission timeline.
Spring Semester 2006 Tuition Waiver Program
The application for
the B140W Tuition Waiver Program is now available to all full-time
State and Research Foundation employees. The waivers are available
on a first-come-first-serve basis. To find information about the
program and the application process, please click on link
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Admin/HRS.nsf/benefits and click on
State. The information is entitled Employee Tuition Waiver
Program/Spring 2006 Semester. Please check the West Campus Benefits
website under Research Foundation for complete information about the
program. An application may be requested by calling the West Campus
Benefits office at 2-6167 or 2-6136; please include your
departmental zip code with your request.
STATE
HOSPITAL/VETERANS HOME/TECH PARK employees must contact Shirley
Menzies at 4-4759 for a waiver form.
--Contributed by
Alessandra White, State Benefits Supervisor, Phone: (631)
632-6167
Reconstructed
1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus Added to Federal Select Agent List
Please note that the Department of Health and Human Services has
published an interim final rule that requires, as of October 20,
2005, the registration of anyone possessing, using, or transferring
"Reconstructed replication competent forms of the 1918 pandemic
influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all
eight gene segments" or intending to possess, use or transfer this
agent.
If you possess this agent, you MUST contact the Department of
Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) immediately to register this
agent with the federal government. Failure to do so is a federal
offense with both criminal and civil penalties. If you wish to
obtain this material for research purposes you must receive
authorization from the Department of Health and Human Services
through Stony Brook University EH&S. Contact EH&S at 2-6410 to
register or for further information. More information on the Federal
Select Agent Program can be found at -
http://www.cdc.gov/od/sap/index.htm
Potential Protein Lounge License
The Center for Information Technology of DHHS is currently in
process of negotiating a site license from Protein Lounge. This site
license will allow NIH, CDC and FDA researchers to access the online
Protein Lounge databases and tools and will also provide access to
the soon to be released Complete Systems Biology (CSB) Package which
will be available on CD. The CSB tool is a desktop version of the
entire Protein Lounge online site. Additionally, the CSB tool will
include a Pathway Illustration tool, which will allow the user to
create new pathways as well as modify all of the ~600 Protein Lounge
pathways and adjacent protein data.
Included online
databases: Signal Transduction Pathway Database, Peptide Antigen
Database, siRNA Database, Kinase-Phosphatase Database, Transcription
Factor Database, Disease Genes Database, Biochemical Compound
Database, Protein Interactions Database and Protein Database.
Included online tools: Pathway Builder tool, Peptide finder tool,
Protein Hydroplotter tool, siRNA creator tool, and many more. The
complete list of database and tools that will be included with the
site license may be viewed at -
http://www.proteinlounge.com/subscriptionDetail.asp
DHHS is seeking to
estimate how many researchers would be interested in accessing the
Protein Lounge databases and tools. The site license cost (per user)
will significantly be reduced as the number of users increases. If
you would be interested in access to Protein Lounge through the site
license, please click on the following link to fill out the survey
form -
http://www.proteinlounge.com/nihsitelicense.asp
2005 Important Updates to SBU's Human Subject Protections Program (HSPP)
Our Human Subject Protection
Program (HSPP) has many active participants, including Principal
investigators and their study teams, staff of the Office of Research
Compliance (ORC), and the membership of our Institutional Review
Boards (IRB). Our combined efforts continue to help ensure that our
HSPP is solid and effective in keeping safe those individuals who
volunteer to participate in our research activities at SBU.
The ORC and the IRBs are constantly evaluating the program to
assess the need for clarifications of current SBU policies and
procedures, promulgation of new policies and procedures, and
dissemination of new federal guidance and regulations. The following
is a summary of such actions that have been taken or proposed over
the past year, including some clarifications of unchanged policies
and procedures, since our last update in 2004.
Quick Links
--Contributed by
Judy Matuk, Director of Research Compliance, Phone: (631)
632-9036
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For More Information
An abundance of
specific information for the research community is available on our
Website, where past issues of this bulletin can also be found.
Office of the Vice President for Research -
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/
Monday Memo archive -
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/monmemo/mmarchive.html
All past issues of Monday Memo are keyword searchable.
And if you are challenged by the embarrassment of riches in the
over 2,000 individual Web pages that comprise the Website, you may
find the alphabetical site index helpful. The index can be accessed
at
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/sitemap.html.
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