July 8 Federal Research Update

Dear Colleagues,  

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend and took some time for family and friends. For this week’s digest, there are a couple of priority items that I want to update you on.

Federal awards reinstatements: In the wake of June’s federal district court ruling finding executive order-based award terminations illegal, nearly 16% of PIs with terminated NIH awards have now received notices of reinstatement. While this is great news, we still have 87 PIs who are waiting for information. We currently do not have any insight on the timeline, process, or approach from the NIH for these remaining terminated awards. I hope to learn more this week.

The administration has appealed this court ruling, and the future of our reinstated awards is still uncertain.  

Foreign subaward restructuring: Importantly, PIs with current awards have been receiving emails from their Grants Management Specialist regarding new options for restructuring foreign subawards containing Human Subject Research. NIH has not yet released the new options on their public site as a policy update to NOT-OD-25-104. For PIs with a foreign subaward that fits this category, please contact your OSR staff to learn more. For those to whom this update does not apply, there may be other interim solutions while we wait. Please contact the Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) for questions regarding potential options.

Thank you for your continued attention to these federal research updates. We will be adjusting our newsletter cadence to every two weeks from here forward. You can expect this Federal Research Digest at the beginning of each month, and our ReSearch ReSource newsletter, which includes federal and broader updates, in the third week of each month.  

As always, you can continue to contact my office at [email protected].  

Yours,  
Hal  

Harold R. Collard, MD, MS 
Vice Chancellor for Research 
Professor of Medicine and Health Policy