Dear Research Community,
Below is this week’s Federal Research Digest. Thank you for your continued feedback regarding these weekly updates and broader communications efforts. Your feedback is helpful in providing clear and timely information.
Please see below a few top highlights from me:
- NIH award terminations and delays: The number of award terminations has plateaued since early May; I am hopeful this represents a meaningful sign of the administration shifting away from these actions. There is a slight increase in new NIH awards with delayed NOAs and NIH continuation awards with delayed NOAs, but UCSF is receiving an increased number of overall NOAs, which portends well for these delays normalizing over the coming months. Our new dashboard is your go-to source for updated quantitative data on these issues; please check it out and bookmark it for easy access. (Viewer must be connected to the UCSF network either locally or via VPN.)
- Appeals to award terminations: There are additional considerations for the university related to requirements of the revised Grants Policy Statement at NIH and NSF that complicate the filing of appeals. For terminations with formal appeals processes (e.g., NIH), UCSF is still supporting PIs who wish to submit an appeal. For terminations that specify no appeals or remain silent on appeals (e.g., NSF), UCSF is not filing appeals at the current time. Please contact OSR at [email protected] to learn more.
- NIH pause on foreign subawards: We are actively partnering with the Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) to assess the impact of this policy change and support our affected researchers. We are hosting a virtual forum in early June for those who are currently impacted and those who may be impacted in the future. Please don’t forget to fill out this survey if you fit in either of these categories, and email [email protected] to receive an invitation to the forum. Additionally, a new FAQ document specific to this issue is now available.
As always, please contact me at [email protected] with questions or comments.
Yours,
Hal
Harold R. Collard, MD, MS
Vice Chancellor for Research
Professor of Medicine and Health Policy