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Effective immediately, please do not submit InfoEd applications for cooperative research group projects to the Grants and Contracts Office (GCO).  While this change affects submissions to InfoEd, study teams must continue to submit these projects to the Program for Protection of Human Subjects (PPHS) Office in RUTH with the corresponding Investigator Form (IF) packet in Sinai Central.

Cooperative research group projects are studies where the overall funding is provided by the NIH either directly or through a subaward and then the Institution is asked to carry out multiple individual clinical studies, which do not have separate applications or budgets. The overall funding will continue to go through GCO, but the individual clinical studies will no longer require GCO submissions.

Below is a list of the cooperative research group projects we have identified as currently active and the primary departments in which this research is conducted. If you believe some of your studies fall into this category, but do not see your group listed, please contact GCO to clarify.

1. Gynecologic Oncology Group – OB/GYN & Reproductive Science
2. Cancer and Leukemia Group B (NCI) – Medicine Hematology/Oncology
3. Ct Surgery Network Research Group – Population Health Science and Policy
4. NRG Oncology – Radiation Oncology and Precision Immunology Institute
5. Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology – Medicine Hematology/Oncology
6. Southwest Oncology Group – Medicine Hematology/Oncology
7. Pediatric Oncology Group (NCI) ­­- Pediatrics
8. Children’s Oncology Group – Medicine Hematology/Oncology and Pediatrics

This Grants and Contracts Office (GCO) submission process change is part of a broader schoolwide initiative to improve research administration workflow efficiency and reduce redundancy. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

The Grants and Contracts Office

Effective immediately please note these changes in data entry requirements for non-key personnel on non S2S submissions on the InfoEd Personnel and Budget tabs.

Personnel Tab
Data entry of named and to be named (TBN) staff on non key personnel staff on non S2S submissions is no longer required. For example, if you have a named research coordinator or a TBN technician, do not data enter these lines on the Personnel tab.

Budget Tab
On the Budget tab, rather than individually adding the costs associated with each position,  enter the cumulative total of non key personnel salaries in the "Salaries & Wages" line and the cumulative total of  non key personnel fringe in the "Fringe Benefits" line.

The "Salaries & Wages" and "Fringe Benefits" options are included  with the rest of the direct cost options such as "Consultant Costs," "Animal Costs," "Travel-Domestic," "Other Costs," etc.

Here is an example of data entry.  If the cumulative total of your research coordinator and post doc salary is 100,000, enter 100,000 in "Salaries and Wages."  If the cumulative total of the fringe is 30,000, enter 30,000 in "Fringe Benefits."

Feel free to review these definitions for additional clarification.

Non-Key Personnel
These are individuals who do not contribute to the scientific development or execution of a project in a substantive, measurable way. This is regardless of whether or not they receive salaries or compensation from the sponsored project. Typically post docs, research assistants, and technicians are considered non-key personnel.

Non S2S Submissions
This is a type of InfoEd submission in which Mount Sinai uses InfoEd internally at ISMMS only and not to submit an application to an extramural funding agency.  Examples are NIH non-competitive continuations, a new grant to the American Heart Association, or a non competitive continuation of an unfunded project using animal cell lines.

We hope this reduction of data entry will relieve some of the administrative burden associated with the submission process. Please contact the GCO with any questions you may have.