Attention: NIH Postdocs

[Debra L. Martin]

Dear MIT Postdoctoral Associates and Fellows,

The NIH has just announced that on August 8, 2009,  the Ruth. L. 
Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual 
Postdoctoral Fellows (F32) and Predoctoral Fellows (F31) must be 
submitted via Grants.gov.   PAPER SUBMISSIONS WILL NO LONGER BE 
ACCEPTED. 

MIT's preferred method for submitting proposals to Grants.gov is 
through system-to-system transmission using Coeus, MIT's grants 
management system 
(<http://coeus.mit.edu/coeus>http://coeus.mit.edu/coeus). The Coeus 
programmers are working on providing the necessary forms that will be 
required for these submissions.  An SF424 Guide to Fellowships has 
just been released and we are working to create a Coeus preparation 
guide for creating these proposals.  At this time applicants can 
begin preparing their proposal in Coeus, but will not be able to link 
to Grants.gov until the necessary forms have been programmed.  There 
will be additional information available in the next few weeks, but 
we wanted to alert you to this change in process.

  If you are planning to submit a proposal for the upcoming NIH NRSA 
deadline, we encourage you to contact your departmental administrator 
as soon as possible so that they can request system authorization for 
you and can assist you as you prepare your application. 
Additionally, you will need an eRA Commons userid, which you can 
obtain by sending an email to 
<mailto:nih-help at mit.edu>nih-help at mit.edu.

To help us prepare and better assist you, we also ask that you 
contact <mailto:Coeus-help at mit.edu>Coeus-help at mit.edu with the 
following information:

* The name of each applicant (per NIH guidelines, this individual 
will be considered the P.I. for submission purposes only)
* The name of the faculty mentor/sponsor
* The solicitation to which you are applying
* The department submitting  your proposal

All proposals in final format must be received in OSP by 9:00am on 
Tuesday, August 4.  Given the challenges we have experienced as other 
NIH mechanisms transitioned over the last two years, it is safe to 
say that we will not be in a position to review and submit late 
fellowship proposals.    Any proposal that does not meet this 
internal deadline will require special approval by the Dean's Office 
and will only be processed after all 'on time' proposals have been 
submitted successfully.

Below are links to each solicitation:

  Postdoctoral PA-09-210
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-210.html>http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-210.html

Predoctoral   PA-09-208
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-208.html>http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-208.html

Predoctoral to promote Diversity -    PA-09-209
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-209.html>http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-209.html

Please also note the SF424 RR Guide to Fellowships which should be 
used for additional help.
  <http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/SF424_RR_Guide_Fellowship.pdf>http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/SF424_RR_Guide_Fellowship.pdf

All questions should be directed to Priscilla Caissie, Fellowship 
Administrator in OSP at <mailto:pcaissie at mit.edu>pcaissie at mit.edu or 
8-8009.



_____________________________________
Noelle E. Donahue
Coeus Support Specialist
Office of Sponsored Programs
Phone: 617-258-8014
Fax:  617-253-4734
ncaissie at mit.edu



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Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager
MIT
Vice President for Research Office, Rm 11-268
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
617-258-0310, 617-252-1003 (fax)
debra at mit.edu
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