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The PMI Grants Team is pleased to offer you our inaugural issue of Grants-At-A-Glance!  Our goal through this publication: help set you for success by affording clear, succinct, and timely updates on submission guidelines, deadlines, and post-award materials for NIH and ancillary agencies.


Your Grants Team! 
Have a pressing inquiry regarding submissions or post-award items?  Please contact us!  Candice Stevens, Administrative Officer, Lauren Milam, Administrative Manager, Karin Sack, Grants Manager, Leigh Thompson, Budget Accounting Analyst Post-Award, and Alethea Kelly, Budget Accouting Analyst Pre-Award.

News for NIH Resubmissions 
As a reminder, NIH no longer requires applicants to identify substantial scientific changes within the text of resubmission by brackets, indents, or typography changes.  NIH advises all applicants to outline additions, deletions, and changes in the introduction of the resubmission.  (NOT-OD-15-030)

PMCID Numbers and Biosketches 
Anyone submitting an application, proposal or report to the NIH must include the PMC reference number (PMCID) when citing applicable papers they author or that arise from their NIH-funded research. NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Guideline Updates on Human Subjects 
NIH has made substantive changes on how Human Subjects information is compiled in NIH submissions, as of 01/25/18.  New E-Forms are designed to make distinction between the use of de-identified data and specimens, human subject research, and clinical trials.  New Human Subjects form

NIH Submission Deadlines 
R01 (New) VUMC Routing: 09/25,  Sponsor: 10/05
U01 (New) VUMC Routing: 09/25, Sponsor: 10/05
K (New) VUMC Routing: 10/02, Sponsor: 10/12   
R21 (New) VUMC Routing: 10/04, Sponsor: 10/16  
R01 (Renewal, Resubmission, Revision) VUMC Routing: 10/24, Sponsor: 11/05
U01 (Renewal, Resubmission, Revision) VUMC Routing: 10/24, Sponsor: 11/05
K (Renewal, Resubmission, Revision) VUMC Routing: 10/31,  Sponsor: 11/12 
R21 (Renewal, Resubmission, Revision) VUMC Routing: 11/06, Sponsor: 11/16

Funding Opportunities
Internal                                                                                                           
VUMC Faculty Research Scholars $75,000/year, SOI: 01/15.  Deadline 02/15.
Vanderbilt Clinical Oncology Research Career Development Program (VCORCDP) Salary support, tuition, travel, and $5,000-$10,000 in research supplies.  Deadline: 02/29.
External      
 2019 Sartorius & Science $25k prize.  Deadline 10/01.   
 Whitehall Foundation Up to $75,000 per year.  LOI: 10/01 for Spring and 04/15 for Fall.
NCI Outstanding Investigator Award $600,000 direct costs/year, for 7 years.  ILN: 09/28, LOI: 10/03, and full application: 11/02.

                                       Kudos!                                             

PMI was awarded 4 fellowships this past summer!  Great job postdocs!

             Planning a proposal submission in the next 2-3 months? 

 Reference our Grants Submission Timeline.  Key milemarkers, OSP deadlines, and corresponding action-items.  Contact Karin Sack
Vanderbilt University Medical Center 1161 21st Ave S | Nashville, TN 37232 US
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