We are discussing Delaware IR RFA. There are two types of projects this year, research projects and pilot projects. And as I said, I'm the DRPP, the Developmental research project Program Director for Delaware Ib. I will help you put together your application any advice you need. I'm happy to help you, but you also have a lot of support at your institution, so I will point you to those individuals as well. I work not solo, but with the research development committee. Hakeem is the representative from DSU for this committee. We also have other representatives from other network institutions. So at this point, we have Claudine Jerkowz, who's from CCHS. I know there's Rick who's in the group, and we have others Amanda Herman, as well as Suzanne Milburn at the Long T MVA. And the process and the writing of this has been a lot of effort for the entire committee, but also for our PI, Melinda Duncan, so I want to recognize her here. The mission for Delaware entries to improve the capacity to do biomedical health related research. That is relevant to the NIH mission because this is fundamentally an NIH grant that has been awarded to UT to improve the biomedical research across the whole state of Delaware and across network and institutions. Those institutions are listed here, and we are also having researchers at Wilmington BA that are interested in offline. The impetus is to support new and early stage investigators. So new investigators are those who haven't received a large NIH grant, RO one level grant yet. Early stage I think within ten years from their PhD or their terminal degree. It's not a PHD, that's an MD. And both of these groups can apply to all of the awards. There is a mechanism where senior investigators, if somebody has received an RO one and just phased off of that grant, even they can consider applying. There's one such mechanism, but most of these other mechanisms are for new and early stage investigators. The goal eventually is for you to ask research questions that are NIH relevant and also to apply to further NIH or other federal agency grants. And to encourage you to engage in continued research. And also to serve as training sites. One big push for I BRE, which is a NIH DA mechanism. IDA grants are those grants that are given to states that don't have substantial NIH funding. At these states, they want to encourage, especially through in funding, a training of undergraduate students. So if you can take on an undergraduate student, analyze data or actually conduct experiments for you or be very significantly involved in research, you know, they would appreciate that. They want to see that happen. And DSU has so many undergraduate students who are hungry to engage in research. So that is really up your rally as DSU faculty goal is to balance funding across institutions to support not only faculty, but also clinician and research scientists. If there are other types of faculty at DSU that are PI eligible at your institution, you should consider applying. I would make sure to speak to Hasan or Hakim and make sure that you are PI eligible at your institution for Ric that would be speaking to Ross and Scott and making sure you are PI eligible at CCHS. Data science is a push. So there are particular mechanisms that are data science focus. But if you're not doing health related data science, but more broader biological data science, you can still apply to any of these mechanisms as long as it's within the NIH mission, the project is because we are not specific to a focus anymore. We are only interested in applying or accepting projects that are encompassed within the NIH mission. There's no question, right? I just there's no questions. Okay. And yeah, we would like to support multiple years. Rosaria was funded last year. We would encourage Rosaria to apply again for the research project to see if, you know, they can get continued support over the next two or three years. This is the RFA. I've sent this PowerPoint to you already, and Hakim would have sent it to you. If you go to our website, Delaware Ibra, I just put Delaware Ibra in Google. It takes you to our website, and if you just say at the top, learn about the RFA. It takes you to the RFFA web page, and then it takes you to the two different types of project awards and details related to that. In fact, once you go into any one of these awards, you can begin your LOI process here and you can read more about the grants here The most important one probably is the templates and samples and downloads, where you actually have not only the template, but also examples of something completed to become an IDP document or a mentoring plan letter or, you know, and such. So there are samples of every special document that you will need for this application. So we try to make things really clear and we'll make them even more clear. So the details of how this goes is explained here. But the The forms will be made even more clear in a few weeks when we meet on September 3. I'll take you through the various templates and examples that have been provided so you know exactly what to cover in each section. So that is this. And so I'll go back to the PowerPoint. So the major project or the larger project of the two research and pirate projects is the research project. There are seven awards this year, and that's for a two year period. So you can request up to 80 k per year and 160 k total. And you do require significant research effort. It is 50% research effort, and that can come through three months of Summer plus another three months of effort throughout the academic year, you'll have to speak to your chair to get that kind of waiver from teaching to be able to engage in research. You will need a mentor because this is only open to new and early stage investigators, and we are asking for mentor to support this PR. If you need help with that, I'm happy to help you. So let me know. But there are also local experts, So Hassan and Hakim at DSU, Melissa Harrington at DSU. And then at CCS. You could reach out to Spark Siegel, Susan Berko, Omar Khan. These are also experts who have offered to help as mentors. Doctor Bas, I don't know the others, but I don't see any more the screen. Oh, I don't know. I don't know if the other people can. I can share again. Sorry. Maybe I stopped sharing. Screen. Can you not see my screen? No. I just I just came out like the Zoom page saying lounge meeting. Oh. And do you not see it yet? So I tried to share out sc. What about a kem? Can you see the? I can see the power points. I can see the power points. So maybe I don't know. I need to leave and I don't know. Come back in. Yeah. You go ahead and do that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here we go. I can see it. Got it. Great. The letter of intent is due September 23, and the full proposal is due October 21. If your application is accepted for funding, then we will have you complete more documents, which is called the just in time process. Then all of these steps are to be completed using the Pi Star REF system. So you might have used this Pitar software for other applications, but this is specific to Delaware Ib, so I would ask you to use this link to go find the RFP related to Delaware Embry this year. Um, again, as I said, this is my contact. Our research manager is Don Everhart. Sorry, I'm not using the correct designation for D. I think she's assistant director. So she is the one who knows everything about our NIH process as well as budget. So when you're making that, along with your local research contact, I'll tell you who your research contacts are. You want to make sure D has also given her less sort of for the things that you've included in your budget. So that way, we don't end up having to remove or change something later. Any issues with Pi star, Linda A Pasco is your expert who can help you with that. And our general DN office e mail is this so you can send it there and they will help figure out who should be helping you if you're not sure. That was research projects. The application process is exactly the same for pilot projects, which are smaller grants. There's just different types of grants and pilot projects. There are about 11 grants and they will be there every year for five years. So if you don't have your application come together this year, you can certainly apply next year. These are 40 k per year for one year. And this requires 25% research, and this should be confirmed by your chair, which means around 12 months, around four months of research effort. You can take the summer months and then add another one academic year month or it can just be any four months of the year that you have effort to put towards research in general. Both of these are research in general. They are not related to this project. So if some of you conduct different projects, all of those together can amount to 25%. Again, this also requires mentor, except if you are a senior investigator, and the senior investigators can apply to booster awards. These are senior investigators who've had an RO one before and have come off the RO one, and now are seeking more funding. Perhaps to have a small project that they need to do to respond to a grant review or to get some pilot data to send a grant back into the system. Those individuals can apply for booster awards. Again, new and e stage investigators who have a well developed idea, who have a lot of pilot data can also apply to this award. But the new investigators who don't have much data, they can apply to all of these other awards and still be considered equally. There's no expectation for pilot data anywhere except here probably you want to show some expertise. That's the whole point of this application time. Takeoff, you can be looking at very nascent questions. So something that was described today, everything that was described today seem to be a fit. If you don't have data, you can apply to these takeoff awards. If you're doing more data science related research that is health related with these specific datasets, you can apply to the DE data science. If it's data science not related to these datasets, you can put it as a takeoff award or as a booster award depending on what level or stage you are at with that research. There's something called the high end core facility. If you're looking to use very specific services that are provided by the Delaware I Core. This website takes you to all the Delaware ry facilities that are core facilities, and you want to apply to something specific in that list, then you can ask for high end core facility award request. It's specifically for these larger types of analyses are in a sequencing genomics that requires a lot of funding to do these experiments. So that's where the amount 40 k becomes really appropriate for this type of requests. And it could be for any PIs. The senior PIS can also apply to this, new and early stage can apply to all grants. You would need a co director support letter for this type of award. I. Do you have a question? Yeah, Yes. I'm sorry, I wasn't in trouble in the Wi Fi. So that's why I little coming late. You know. So my question is the SU is currently in developing genetic core facility. So, you know, once, you know, you know, the Award started this this pilot program. Also, DSU PI can also use in our own co facility instead of, you know, bra co facility for genomic service. Maybe that's a question to ask Hassan and Melinda because I don't know if automatically these facilities are part of the Dry Core facilities. Doctor Lee, if I may jump in here, your facility right now is not part of the Delaware Embry Core facility. And how your facilities could be integrated is the proposal, the person who would like to submit the proposal to this call is to say that they will be using your facility to collect data. That's outside. It's not necessarily your thing, it's up to the project I who would like either use your equipment to collect the data. But at this stage, your facility is not a part of the whole thing, and you're not going to get support directly, but any ESU or any other person who uses submit a proposal can suggest and say that we will be using your equipment. Yeah. I agree with that. Yeah, I agree with that because you can still, doctor apply to the takeoff if the PI is a new investigator early stage. You can still apply to the booster, and it doesn't have to be this award. You just applied for the pilot project. In fact, if you have a big enough project, you can also apply to the research project. There's no necessary. This is to encourage people to use D in facilities if they are using it. But really, if it does not help you to apply to these other awards, and that would still be fine. I hope that makes sense. And who is eligible? I guess that's the question you were trying to also get at. The PI who is eligible as a PI at your institution to submit a grant is eligible. So I will, you know, let Hakim or her son chime in. Who is considered PI eligible at DSU? Um, but the effort level I have already explained that you need to have for an RP versus PP project, so you have to come to an agreement with your chair. You need to be at one of our institutions, the four that I described, the five that I described at the beginning. There are certain projects that are only open to new and early stage and certain that are only open to seniors, so you want to make sure the senior investigators are only going for these projects. The other investigators new and early can apply for everything. Sorry, I didn't emphasize that even the data science projects, the senior PIs can apply to just like they can apply to Booster and N. No Sorry, Angela, the only thing I'll add to that is for eligibility is faculty level persons is what our institution will consider. So yeah. And everything else you said. Yeah. So not graduate students, not post docs, but anybody who's a faculty even if they are a gunk faculty, reach out to Hakim and her son to confirm eligibility and consider applying. Yeah. Mentors or people who are in your field, who have the experience of doing the type of work you do, but also perhaps have some experience with grant writing. So you might have more than one mentor, somebody who will help you write the grant eventually that you'll send out, and then also somebody who's an expert in your area. They don't have to be from a particular institution. They could be elsewhere, but it's nice to have one at your institution, if you can have them serve all purposes, that's great. Then you don't need ten people on your team. But if you need somebody's expertise outside of the state, sure, you can add them to your team. But you want somebody at your institution because they will guide you to make progress in the right way in the right direction at your institution. What is required for your institution to be considered a successful researcher. So it's good to have somebody at your own institution. They need to be somebody who's committed to your career development. So, you know, I will give you a list of people who agreed to be mentors at your institution, you can consider reaching out to them or you can consider reaching out to others. And if you need more names, I'm happy to suggest if I know your area or between Melinda and myself, we'll find people that will be appropriate mentors. You do need a mentoring plan letter. I will explain that next time when we meet on September 3, the types of details that should go in there. You cannot apply if you have concurrent idea funding. So NIH IDA mechanisms. There are several of these grants, as you just heard that, you know, PIs keep getting these grants at the different institutions. So if you have been funded through that grant, May 1, 2025 onwards. So next year, May 1, onwards, if you're on a different idea grant, if it's supporting your research, then, unfortunately, you shouldn't apply to grant. You should wait till that grant phase fades out and then apply to DMD. This is now talking about the full submission process. There is a lot of details. The first step is letter of intent, and the letter of intent is essentially asking you for details enough to find reviewers for your application. We will also ask you to list reviewers in the letter of intent. Who do you think will be strong reviewers for your project who have expertise in your area? We will contact them and other people with similar expertise. We need the title, we need also personnel names, people on your project. Ideally, we need these components which are really what's considered an abstract or a relevant statement. So we need you to define the problem, what the study aim is, what the methods are. What do you expect to see from this study at the end? Then how will this improve your science in the field that you are in? What's the new thing that will come out of your research? So if you can explain that in one paragraph, that would be very helpful. For me to share with the reviewers on whether they have the expertise and understanding of the sale. The step second step will be October 21, the full application is due. There are all sorts of details that we have provided to you here. As I said, if you go to each of the projects, it takes you through not just the eligibility criteria, who the mentors can be, but the details of how each form is filled out. And what the form should contain, also sends you to many links where there's guidance on how to write this section of the NIH proposal. And so there's a lot of information here as well as under templates and downloads. There are also brand writing resources if you need. But I'm happy to speak to you and meet with you additionally beyond the September 3 meeting to help you sort of problem solve. I, you know, if it's mainly writing, if it's related to the science, you're more helped by your mentor, If it is a specific NIH form. The person who can help you is your research contact. So in the RFA, we call them research contacts. It's Rohina Nima for DSU. It's Ras B zuki for CCH S. It's Ranita Sacro for Nimos, and Don Everhart for UD. These are your point of contacts to understand how to fill out some of these really tricky forms. There's one form that's very standard, and it's called the SF 424 form. It requires the administrative u official signature from the university. And so for that, you need, you know, their help. You need the research contacts help to fill this formal. The budget form, you need their help because it is very specific in how you make the budget, especially for the research project, the budget form is to be filled twice. A form one and a form to keep the budget separate for first year and secondly. But for the pilot projects, it's just one form. And so that you require the research contacts, help soon. Definitely reach out to them soon. Also reach out to your mentor soon because to write the science related to your project, specific aims, and research strategy, you need some expertise, in terms of the mentors understanding. So you want to make that connection soon. I'm happy to help with just generally understanding how to write NIH grants. I'm happy to meet you about that. There are other very special documents that are required for Delaware I, they're called the inclusion plan for undergraduates. How are you going to engage undergraduates in your research? There's the IDP which talks about your career and what career path you want to take in the next one to two years or even five years. Mentoring letter is the letter your mentor provides to say that they will engage in these types of activities to support you. Letter from the chair is to make sure the effort is going to be there. There are 25% or 50% research effort. Then depending on the project, you have to either complete the clinical trial forms, which is a lot of forms. So for Rick Sullivan, Fan, Franklin, I think your projects are human subjects. So please reach out for me. I will help you with these forms. All the details on in the RFFA because it's only really needed for people who do human subjects research. And then the idea award success statement. If you've had an idea grant in the past, you want to talk about how that has benefited you and how papers or presentations have come out of that. And sample of how to write that up is also provided. All of these are provided as not only as templates, but examples are also provided on the website. Then we conduct what's called an NI style review. So we find reviewers, send them application. They score your application. We need to discuss the application. And then the main questions we are asking is, does this impact their field? Is it going to lead to a successful grant application in the future? And does it fit the mechanism that we have asked them to apply to? Are they able to do this work in this time? And then we receive scores and recommendations from the RDC. The RDC The group that will meet to discuss the feedback from all the reviewers, and these would be the recommendations. So you might get a request to revise in the just in time process to revise and improve your application, to make it competitive for NIH. Because ultimately, this application goes to NIH, and they will, you know, review it to make a decision on whether they want to fund. So we want to make sure that your application is competitive. So we identify finalists by mid January, and then there are a whole host of forms. We will ask you to complete after that, but I'll talk about that. That's, you know, problem for later. The most important thing is the IRV IAP or data use agreement approval if it's a data science project. So these need to be in place. Your approval needs to be in place by March 3. Otherwise, the application will not move forward. And I know that that's a little tricky because you're thinking, Hey, I don't know if I received the funding yet. But unfortunately, we do need the way the process works for NIH. Uh, idea grants. We need these approvals in place by March 3. So you want to start applying for that approval now if you know you're going to want this D in re award in the future and you're applying to the in re award. And by May 1, generally, we will receive notice May 15, perhaps, you know, a little bit late, but we should receive notice from NIH that your grant is approved and ready to start and your funding should start by the. So at this point, I'm ready to help you hash out with you, what your application will look like if you're interested in talking to me about your idea, if you could send some brief description through a specific aims page and some aims and hypotheses. I would be happy to give you feedback. If you're not there yet, you just want to talk about it. That's fine, too. But you should be reaching out to your institutional experts. So mentors are these here. These are the mentors who offered to help at your institution. These are your research contacts. You should be starting to speak with them to set up your budget, to know how to fill that budget and SF 424 form. If you need more help with IRB or IAC, they might be able to point you to the right people. You should also feel free to reach out to me or Don. We are the ones who are charged with helping you, but you can reach out to all these other members of our team who would be happy to help you. So with that, I will stop and take questions. Yeah, I have a. So program is really more focusing on the undergraduate research as reporting. So however, currently, our program is more research oriented. So would it be possible this program support in a master of PT to do? Yes, of course. So I know that we emphasize the undergraduate students, but if you refer to the budget and all the people that are allowed on the budget, it includes graduate students post docs. It includes research faculty in your group who support you in the specific way for the project, as long as they're helping with the project, they can be having effort on the project. Including the PI can also have effort on the project. The mentor cannot have effort on the project at this time. Another question is Hat you mentioned that, you know, our current developing facility that belongs to I Brad. But however, he can, you know, suggest me I can include the statement that maybe I can use our facility to conduct some genomic work here. So this one should be mentioned in the proposal narrative or budget justification. Yeah, I can take that one. M. So basically, the idea that like that that mechanism with the boosters, it just means that your co will not be a part of that, but it doesn't mean that you can write a grant to support work that's done at your core, right? So just just two distinctions. It doesn't impact you in any adverse way. That that mechanism is just like it supports the core that core to the IR program across the state. Doesn't it doesn't preclude you. A fine, what do you think? Absolutely. I think I may add the extinction under this FOA is just targeting a new investigator interested in getting support under the IRA program. It's not necessarily discussion about how your facilities, how you grow your facilities, and how it will be supported under the Ibra program. This is a totally different things that needs to be discussed locally here at SU, and then broaden discussion with all the leadership and the Delaware Ibra program. For the time being, this discussion right now is about how to submit under the FOA and this particular FOA project that will be supported by the Ibra. If the PA and the PI of this project or the project leader of this project will indicate that they will be using your equipment, that's gain. It's part of the whole process. There's nothing that to think it doesn't it's not going to include in the proposal that they will be using this Delaware by facility which is yours because it's not at this stake. That's all the difference. Everything else is wide open. If you yourself have data and you want to get support from the Delaware by to as a booster or any other mechanism, you are more than welcome to submit your proposal. And like Hasan said that if you want to somehow include your facility in D Delaware and Report facilities, that's a discussion outside of this because it's not in my power to make those decisions. That's a Duncan discussion with Hasan. So that can have doctor Lee should have with Hasan. I hope that makes sense. Any other questions? I think September 3 might be more helpful in terms of how to fill the applications and everything. The different forms. But if there's any concern about eligibility or you don't have a mentor right now. Any question like that? Yeah. If I may add gin, I think you doing a fantastic job of describing the whole process, and I'm just going to ask the faculty the DSU faculty in particular to start if they have an idea, a project they have in mind to look at three things, who would be their mentors, and then to identify a person start communicating, start exchanging ideas. And there are many higher ideas who who would be more than happy to help. And they can help you in different parts. I know they want to be mentors, but I can tell you they're expert in putting together And they will suggest, how about you do that? How you do that? And it's a multi task. It's not just like one focus. It's only going to help me my research. They have DSU faculty have to do their experience, have Multi kind of task. They doing it one. It's not, you know, each person do it. They will help you to identify for facilities because they have used the f. Engage me in discussion, you will see how much help you can get. For example, I can tell you if you ask me where I can get the data, I can point out some people who are within the b or others. But you'd have to have someone who will help you to get started and start getting the communication what you need, how you. And the mentors is key in that as at DSU level because they have more than one hat. They have been and most of us, if I may say, have been the recipient of the Delaware. I myself was a recipient, was a recipient. We know a lot of things and the process, and we try to improve it by moving into a different position. But I can tell you a lot of already interaction happens, who you can contact. D is a perfect example of that. She has huge experience in data. She can answer instantly. Of course, we can always give her our time about some of some of the questions. She always see S BSU giving other challenges that we always try to fix. But I can tell you Rina and Don for budgeting is perfect. One example I can tell you because you mentioned a graduate student. You can put a graduate student in your budget. We we do have under the Delaware in funding to support graduate students at DSU. So there's a whole mechanism. If you ask me about inter, we have in Intergy. If you ask for the sit, focus on what you need for your research, focus on what if you're hiring a post doc or what and make sure if you're hiring a post doc, you have only a year or two, and it's very short. Do you have a post or you don't have it? Don't start ping a post doc. And six months later he said, I do not have a post do. It takes it takes a while to recruit. And you got to really strategize in that sense. I hope I didn't I was trying to just simplify things here for our faculty here, and there is a lot of things that we can contribute in that sense. Thank you. Another question. Yeah. And the only thing I also want to add along lines of what Assan said. I mean, he said it and I just want to re emphasize is that it's not too early to start working on that budget. I think he said it I'm pretty sure he said, but I want to just emphasize because it's so important. They can be quite intimidating, particularly if you are doing this for the first time. And Hassan has actually put in place at the state, and I certainly hope that Ms Christianity as well as the case, but to simplify things as much as possible. So for our place, we don't need you to go through the whole process of having our office or sponsor program sign off. He's already put a very nice deal in place that if you won't be Rohina, we can prepare that budget for you. So that removes a really huge our burden because we can be quite intimidating. I know that from personal experience, I'm from working with other Mints as well. So if you want to start to even if you are not yet 100% certain, The budget is a very good place to start. And just get it out of the way. It's my my suggested Aina s. I think as angela mentioned, she's a research contact, and she can help you with that. And for CCH, for Rick will be Ross, and then also Mary Thomas will help you with your budget. I think both of those individuals are there in place to help Delaware and applications. And then you submit it through Pity. You don't go all the way through the whole research office at institution. B. I have a clarifying question. So when is the let's say I'm awarded with this pilot grant or research grant. Is the grant is starting in May? Ma? Yeah. Yeah. 2025. That's correct. And it'll be a one year grant if it's pilot, and it'll be two years if it's research project, but it is really one year plus one year. So you make a budget for one year and also make another form for the second. Try to keep those separate because the way Da grants work is they renew every year. So the budget has to be kept separate for each of the two years of research project. No, I already have a COP grant, and I think it is going to finish in August if I'm not mistaken. Next year. Yeah. Then either you finish your money soon and somehow come off of it. That's the decision people make that, Hey, do I need to come off of a grant sooner because I would like to have the in refunding. But yeah, you can't have it at the same time. So there is no possibility of taking this grant from starting August, it has to be started in May. That's Yeah. Yeah. That's. Yeah. That's an NIH. Thank you. That's an NIH rule for idea programs. It's not something that either Ib Coby, or CTR has implemented. It's coming down from the top. Yeah. Finish you can finish the somehow. So May has indicated that end in May. I'm not sure. I have to look into that. The other thing I may add, expect if you get the project, the Da Emery Project, and no cost extension. That doesn't happen. If you are said you're going to start on May 1, and on April 30, you have to spend the money this year. Do not even request no cost extension.
DRPP RFA Overview 08-2024
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