The Office of Research will assist researchers with all facets of the processing of applying for contracts and grants.
The Office of Research will help investigators search for appropriate extramural sources of funding both public—federal, state, and other government agencies, and private—corporations, foundations, and other non-profit entities. These will be investigated to identify potential funding sources. Investigators are encouraged to register with one of the services such as UNM's Genius|Smarts that will notify them of funding opportunities in their areas of interest. Investigators can also register with NIH's listserve to receive weekly e-mails of NIH's funding announcements at http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm.
John Lucas assists Dr. Dominic Raj
in researching funding sources.
The Office of Research assists investigators with constructing and formatting the budgets for their projects. We cannot tell you what to do or what it will cost, but we can help you put it in the proper format for both the funding agency and the Health Sciences Center’s PreAward office and ensure compliance with agency and university policies.
Different funding agencies have different requirements for applications. The Office of Research will review your application to ensure that it complies with the particular agencies requirements. But we can only do this if we have a copy of the funding agency’s guidelines, Request for Proposals (RFP), Program Announcement or other materials that contains this information. If you are responding to a written announcement or solicitation, be sure to give us a copy with your draft, or tell where to get it on line. Many funding agencies have web sites where this is available. Just give us the URL.
All federal funding agencies are utlizing electronic submission of proposals. Twenty six federal agencies including NIH require electronic submission through Grants.gov. The Office of Research can assist investigators with preparation of their proposals for electronic submission. Please note that electronic submission of proposals to NIH requires additional time. The HSC PreAward Services Office requires a 10 business day advance proposal submission for NIH proposals submitted via Grants.gov. If the proposal is due at NIH on June 1, it must first be submitted to the HSC PreAward Services Office no later than May 18th. Please note that the proposal should be submitted to the Department of Internal Medicine's Office of Research for initial review and internal approvals.
When the application is essentially complete, bring it to the Office of Research. We will review the application, alert the principal investigator to any problems, and obtain the necessary approvals and signature from the department for submission to the HSC PreAward Services Office.
REMEMBER, the HSC PreAward Services Office wants your application five working days before the application deadline, and ten working days before the application deadline if its an electronic submission to NIH. The Office of Research will process your application as quickly as we can. If there are no problems, it can take up to two or three days--people may not be around to sign off on your proposal. Plan on getting your application to us at least eight working days before the application deadline, thirteen if it's an electronic submission to NIH. Get it to us sooner if you can.
