Reminder of New Policies Now – Or Soon To Be – In Effect

A number of NIH policies became effective in January. Here’s a brief recap:
Effective January 1, 2017:
Final Research Performance Progress Reports: As of January 1, NIH no longer accepts the Final Progress Report (FPR) form for most grants. Instead, grantees must provide final progress reports using the Final Research Performance Progress Report (Final RPPR) format, which is submitted electronically through a new eRA Commons module. Read more in the NIH Guide (NOT-OD-17-022) and Nexus, and read about the “Interim RPPR” further below.
Good Clinical Practice Training:  NIH expects NIH-funded investigators and clinical trial site staff who are responsible for the conduct, management and oversight of NIH-funded clinical trials to have Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training. As long as steps are being taken to meet the policy expectation, e.g., staff who have not yet been trained have signed up for a course, the training itself can be completed after the Jan 1, 2017 effective date. See last month’s Nexus for help identifying training opportunities.
Effective January 18, 2017:
Clinical Trial Reporting Requirements: NIH expects investigators conducting clinical trials (funded in whole or in part by the NIH) to ensure that these trials are registered at ClinicalTrials.gov within 21 days of first-patient enrollment and that the results information from these trials is submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov within one year of trial completion. NIH’s policy complements a new ...

Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 1, 2017 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Source Type: funding