The Federal Financial Report and the Research Performance Progress Report, the result of two Federal-wide streamlining efforts, will relieve grantees from the administrative burdens associated with the array of different forms and systems used by Federal research funding agencies.

In the fall, NIH will implement a new policy restricting the types of late grant application materials we will accept. The policy will encourage applications to be complete and ready for review upon submission.

eRA’s systems are custom built to meet the unique needs of our grantees. In recent months, NIH has released numerous products to aid you in the use of eRA’s systems.

Beginning August 1, 2010, all SNAP (Streamlined Noncompeting Award Process) eligible awards must be submitted electronically using the eRA Commons eSNAP module.

Confused about how the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA) and ClinicalTrials.gov relate to you? OER launched an expanded Web site that provides this information and more.

Just as the majority of our applications are now received electronically, we are moving towards all electronic post award administration as well. In the coming months, two optional electronic features will become mandatory: eSNAP and xTrain.

If you received an ARRA award on or before June 30, 2010 (whether or not you have spent any money), you will need to file a quarterly report to FederalReporting.gov between July 1 and July 10. Tools are available to assist recipients in completing their reports as accurately and easily as possible.

More than 140 Recovery Act grants will enable the construction and renovation of buildings, laboratories and core facilities across the country. These new facilities will create, sustain and preserve jobs, from the initiation of construction through to the hiring of new biomedical investigators.

In the upcoming months, NIH bibliography management will move from eRA Commons to an NCBI tool called My NCBI. My Bibliography, within My NCBI, has the ability to search for citations in PubMed and automatically populate eRA Commons. For more information on the transfer read on.

Provide your comments on NIH’s recently issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that proposes changes to the financial conflict of interest regulations.