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NIH Terms and Conditions
Managing Awards
Personnel
Effort and Salary
Post-pourri
100
This is when the acceptance of the terms and conditions of an NIH NoA occurs.
What is when funds are drawn down?
100
This type of fund allows PIs to begin work and post expenses after having received written confirmation from a sponsor that an award is forthcoming.
What is an Advance Account?
100
This is the NIH individual who provides written approval for prior approval requests.
Who is the Grants Management Specialist?
100
These two mechanisms in PeopleSoft allow an employee’s salary allocation to be adjusted and ALWAYS require detailed comments explaining the change, when sponsored-research funds are impacted.
What are RPOs and EDCs?
100
On a typical NIH R01 grant, this is the maximum number of months the grant can be extended on its 1st no-cost extension.
What is 12?
200
Adding a foreign component to an already-awarded NIH grant would require this from NIH.
What is prior approval?
200
This is the risk associated with the setup/use of an advance account.
What is the agreement may not be realized/executed and the department will be responsible for any expenses incurred?
200

This (Partners) Research Management staff submits no-cost extension requests to a sponsor.

Who is the Post-Award Grants Administrator?

200

This is the maximum NIH annual salary limit on standard grants and cooperative agreements.

What is $192,300? (effective January 6, 2019)


What is $197,300? (effective January 5, 2020)

200
This is the term used to describe the process in which unspent funds from a previous budget period can be added to the current budget period.
What is Carryover?
300
This allows for additional time, but no additional funding, to complete the scope of work on a grant.
What is a No-Cost Extension (NCE)?
300
This is the term to describe the amount of unspent funding at the end of a budget period.
What is unobligated balance?
300
This individual is always considered key personnel on a project.
Who is the PI?
300
Only these individuals are allowed to be paid more than the NIH salary cap on an NIH grant.
Who is no one?
300
Equipment not originally budgeted, but necessary to conduct research on an NIH grant, can be purchased without prior approval, provided it is this to the grant’s SOW?
What is within the grant’s SOW?
400
For a standard NIH R01 award closeout, these 3 reports are required.
What are the Final Progress Report, the Final FSR and the Final Invention Statement?
400
The minimum amount of RECEIVED revenue required to establish a new research sundry.
What is $25,000?
400
In collaboration with the PI and DA, this Research Management position reviews and negotiates the terms and conditions of all research agreements received from non-profit institutions and foundations.
Who is the Agreement Associate?
400
NIH prior approval is required for a 25% or greater effort reduction for these individuals.
Who are the PI and anyone else named as key personnel on a NoA?
400
If a sponsor mails/emails a new (or amended) agreement only to the PI, the department must forward this where?
What is BWHsubs@partners.org or MGHsubs@partners.org?
500
On a typical NIH grant, when a PI decides to add a new domestic subcontractor that does not significantly change the grant’s scope of work, the NIH Grant Management Specialist must provide this before the subagreement can be issued.
What is nothing?
500
This type of account is set up for discretionary RESEARCH spending from either internal or external funds.
What is a Research Sundry account?
500
These NIH programs provide pre-doctoral and postdoctoral research training grants to those interested in pursuing research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical research.
What is an Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) or an Individual Postdoctoral Fellows (F32)?
500

On a standard sponsored research award, salaries can continue to be charged up to this amount of days after the project's end date?

What is 0?

500

Expenses charged to ALL sponsored research awards must be, necessary, allowable, allocable, consistent and this.

What is reasonable?