September 25, 2015

NIH Hosting Webinars for Applicants and Grant Administrators

The National Institutes of Health is offering two webinars in November 2015 for new NIH applicants, their mentors, and grant administrators.

The University Research Administrators webinar is on November 5, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The Research Project Grants (R01) webinar is November 6, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. NIH is asking participants to register by October 29, 2015.

For more information, see the NIH Guide notice Webinars for Applicants and Grant Administrators: What You Need to Know About NIH Application Submission and Review (NOT-OD-15-154). The NIH webinar page includes both registration and links to archived webinars and presentation slides.

September 23, 2015

New Report on Regulation of Federally Funded Research

In response to concerns that regulation of federally funded research has become overly burdensome to the nation’s scientific enterprise, Congress asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a study of federal regulations and reporting requirements directed at research universities and to develop a new framework for regulation.

The National Academy of Sciences Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements released Part 1 of a two-part report, Optimizing The Nation’s Investment in Academic Research: A New Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century. The report identifies specific actions Congress, the White House, federal agencies, and research institutions should take to reduce the regulatory burden.

The report is available online. For more information, see the press release and Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements: A New Framework for Research Universities in the 21st Century.

September 02, 2015

HHS Announces Proposal to Improve Rules Protecting Human Research Subjects

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced proposed revisions to the regulations that govern research on individuals who participate in research, often referred to as the Common Rule.

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) requests comments for HHS to consider as it drafts the final rule. HHS will take public comment on this NPRM for 90 days, beginning September 8, 2015.

For more information, see the HHS press release.