Research Notes
March 2020
University Guidance from the Provost and VP of Research
Brown researchers have been asked to prepare for non-critical, on-campus research being restricted only to essential activities by Wednesday, March 18, at 5pm. Read the full guidance here.
Guidance for Ramping Down On-Campus Research
Brown Environmental Health & Safety has given faculty researchers guidance to ramp down research in an orderly fashion.
Office of Research Integrity
COVID-19 & Human Subjects Research Activities
The HRPP’s landing page serves as your most up-to-date information on how COVID-19 may impact human subjects research operations and processes. Please visit this page as your resource for timely information.
Special Amendment Form: Adding Remote Procedures
Studies that seek to add remote procedures in light of COVID-19 concerns should use the “Amendment Request Form - Remote Procedures” document found here to ensure prioritization and expeditious review.
Special Reportable Events Form: Adding Remote Procedures/Voluntarily Delaying Research Procedures
Studies that enacted remote procedures to protect participants without prior IRB approval or those that would like to voluntarily delay some research procedures should use the special reportable events form.
Closing Expedited Studies
Please remember that with the transition to the revised Common Rule, it is the PI’s responsibility to proactively notify the HRPP when an Expedited study has closed to recruitment and all human subject activities are ended, with identifiers destroyed.
Exempt Modification Request Form
Use this new Exempt Modification request form to revise any procedures, materials, and documents on Exempt research studies.
IACUC MS-222 Policy Update
The Guidelines for Preparation, Storage, Handling and Use of Tricaine Methanesulfonate (Tricaine-S, MS-222) is updated on our website. Questions? Contact IACUC@Brown.edu.
Meeting Dates & Submission Deadlines
Office of Sponsored Projects
Federal Agency Guidance Related to COVID-19
Many federal funding agencies have issued special guidance in response to the COVID-19 situation. Read more
NIH FAQs - Proposal Submission & Award Management Related to COVID-19
This NIH Guide Notice addresses general questions associated with proposal submission and award management that may arise in relation to COVID-19.
New Other Support Guidance Available
OSP has developed a 1-page Other Support Guidance chart that will identify where to list different types of support in NIH and NSF proposals. This chart is based on Council on Government Relations (COGR) interpretation of NIH instructions and NSF’s FAQ on this topic. Read more
Office of Industry Engagement
& Commercial Venturing
Still Open For Inventors and Entrepreneurs
We continue to move processes along regarding patents, intellectual property protections and other commercial venturing pathways. You can contact any of us here.
Cheaper and Better: Invention of an Industrial 3-D Scanner
Imagine a tool that can scan your water bottle and tell you what you need to know to build it from scratch. Professor Gabriel Taubin has identified algorithms that help designers scan a 3-D object to understand how it is made. Read more
The Patent Parade Continues
Each month, our office will share the latest patents that Brown is awarded for faculty inventions. This month, Brown was issued a patent for an invention by Gilead Barnea called "Methods for Labeling and Manipulating a Cellular Circuit." Read more
Limited Submission Operations Continuing
Limited submission announcements and competitions are continuing. See the featured funding database of searchable limited submission opportunities here. Any questions or concerns please email research_opps@brown.edu.
Research Development and Grant Writing Newsletter
This newsletter offers strategies on how to compete successfully for research funding and highlights new funding opportunities. Check out the March issue and catch-up on prior months here.
Subscribe to the RAIS Newsletter (eRAF)
This newsletter offers the opportunity to receive updates focusing on electronic research administration systems, updates from external agencies on research administration, Workday Grants & Effort, and sponsored reporting. Subscribe here.
COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
Click here to visit InfoEd’s SPIN funding database, then under Saved Searches select "Public Searches,' run “COVID-19," and select "Load Search," for an automatically updating list of funding opportunities to study the novel Coronavirus.
Limited Submission Funding Opportunities
Limited Submissions require institutional nomination or endorsement from Brown. Interested? See the featured funding database of searchable limited submission opportunities here.
Conferences & Training
All scheduled in-person conferences and trainings for the coming months have been cancelled or postponed.
NCURA Region I Meeting - Postponed
Regional Meeting has been moved from May 3-6th to December 6-10th. More info can be found here.
HRPP Learning Library
Visit the HRPP Learning Library for overviews and downloadable resources from past workshops.
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