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On April 7, 2006, the National Institutes of Health announced a change in business process to replace the principal investigator signature on grant applications, progress reports, and prior approval requests with an institutional compliance requirement. The new requirement goes into effect for applications submitted for submission/receipt dates beginning May 10, 2006. The benefit to investigators is that with this change, NIH has eliminated the PI verification step in the eRA Commons. Instead, once an application package has been successfully submitted through Grants.gov, all errors corrected, and the application assembled by the eRA Commons, PIs and SPO staff will have two business days to review the application. If everything is acceptable, no further action is necessary. The application will automatically move forward in the process after two business days. If, however, it is determined that the some part of the application was lost or didn't transfer correctly during the submission process, SPO staff will have the option to “Reject” the image and submit a Changed/Corrected application. Please contact Susan Hedley in SPO (2-8119, shedley@berkeley.edu) with any questions. |