Author Archives: Jim Kenny

eRA Information: Focused Notifications, Delegation Now Available in HSS Thursday, September 13, 2018 As a result of a software release for the Human Subjects System (HSS) and ASSIST on Wednesday, September 12, the following features and updates have been added. Human Subject System (HSS) Focused Notifications Responding to feedback from...

Fiscal Year 2019 Rates for Sponsored Projects The fringe benefits and health insurance rates for sponsored projects have been set for the 2019 fiscal year. Refer to the published rate schedules to appropriately determine personnel benefits in proposals. Note that the budget template on the SPO website has been updated...

A new release of the Human Subjects System (HSS) will be made available on August 1, 2018. The new release will include the following features and functionality: When a grantee initiates a migrated study, if the Clinical Trial flag on the migrated Inclusion Data Record (IDR) was “No” Question 1.4.a...

New RAMSeS Enhancement rolled out 06/22/2018 In the RAMSeS IPF, four questions have been added to the Human Subjects section of the Research Subjects screen that are required if the project involves Human Subjects research. The four YES / No questions are … Does the research include “human subjects research”...

Transition from Inclusion Management System to New Human Subjects System (HSS) as of June 9, 2018 As of June 9, Principal Investigators and Signing Officials will no longer see “Inclusion” links as an action option, but instead will see “Human Subjects” links on both the Status Search screens and in...

The top two cost share challenges seen by the Sponsored Programs Office are … Including the Health insurance component in the Cost Share calculation. The Health insurance component calculation is prorated to Percent of Effort. All of the Health insurance component amount is collected when calculating the Salary within the...