What can we help you with?
General
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Where can I find the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) forms?
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Where do I find policies related to research administration at UCSF?
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How do I find institutional information for UCSF, such as the EID and DUNS numbers?
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Where can I find sources of funding for my project?
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How do I find my OSR staff support?
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How do I submit a Material Transfer (MTA) or Data Agreement (DUA)?
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What is a Foreign Component on an NIH project.
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What are some examples of a “significant element of a project” when making determinations regarding a foreign component?
Proposal Preparation and Submission
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How do I submit my proposal?
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How do I find institutional information for UCSF, such as the EID and DUNS numbers need for proposal preparation?
Budget Preparation
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I have a postdoc or research associate that is coming from outside the U.S. to work on my federal award, can I charge the cost of their visa to the grant?
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How do I determine the F&A/indirect cost rate to use for my project?
NIH Other Support
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Should the budget amount during an NCE be the last year's direct costs, total costs or what is remaining?
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Do we need to include awards where the PI has no measurable effort?
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When a research is including information on a subproject, should the researcher provide thet total award for the averall award, or only the subproject. Also how should we report the effort if they are on more than one subproject?
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How should we calculate effort? Should it be a "snapshot"? Or based on Calendar Year, Fiscal year, or on the Budget Period?
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When should we remove something from the pending section?
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Do you need prior approval from the NIH’s GMS for subsumed effort on a K award?
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If my faculty is a co-investigator on a grant, should I list the project costs for the whole project, or for just his/her portion of the project?
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How do I get previous copies of NIH RPPR progress reports?
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Should I Submit the Other Support directly to NIH, or should it go to OSR?
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Do we need prior approval for an increase of effort?
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What if we have received prior approval to reduce effort?
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What should I do if NCE is pending?
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What are differet types of overlap?
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What are some examples of Overlap statements?
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Does UCSF have any additional resources regarding Foreign Influence?
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If a PI has an appointment or receives resources from another entity, does this need to be reported internal at UCSF?
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For NIH Other Support, should we use Annual Direct Costs or Total Costs?
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Is the department’s role w/ foreign influence just to help make faculty aware and direct them to appropriate offices? Or are we expected to verify all information against other sources of information? For instance, do we need to be vetting non-US sponsors of research against entities subject to Restricted Persons Screening?
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Does a Foreign Component need to be included on Other Support?
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How should effort be listed for Industry Clinical Trials when the effort varies depending on the current progress?
Outgoing Subawards/Subcontracts
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How do I submit an outgoing subaward/subcontract request?
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Who do I contact to find the status of my subcontract/subaward
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How should the Subcontract Request Form (SRF) and other attachments, if not able to attach as one PDF, be titled (filename)?
Clinical Trials
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How do I set up a Clinical Trial?
Business Contracts
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How do I request a business contract?
Award Set-up and Administration
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How do I find institutional information for UCSF, such as the EID and DUNS numbers for award documents?
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How do I find the status of my award?
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How do I make a change to an existing award? Which OSR team should I work with?
Animal and Human Subjects
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How do I make changes to/or file my IRB or IACUC ?
PSA/TAA Platform
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What is different with the PSA Request Page in Lightning?
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Why was the Billing Section in the PSA Request Page updated?
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Will I be able to submit a request without uploading documentation supporting the compensations rates as FMV?
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What is Buisness Contract Unit (BC)’s role in the PSA process?
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What is FMV?
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How will I determine that a rate is FMV?
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Are old reports still available?
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What is Lightning in relation to CACTAS and Salesforce?
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What is different with the TAA Request Page in Lightning?
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Does the Clone feature work?
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How do I do a search in Lightning?
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How do I run reports for my department’s PSAs in the Salesforce system?
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How do I run reports for my School’s TAAs in the Salesforce system?