ANNOUNCEMENTS

NIH adopts Commons Forms for Biosketch and other support

Effective on or after January 25,2026 NIH will implement the Common Forms. A high-level summary of NIH-specific updates follows:

General Information

NIH will require the use of Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) to complete Common Forms (i.e., Biographical Sketch, Current and Pending (Other) Support) and the NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement to produce digitally certified PDF(s) for use in application submission.

• NIH will require all Senior/Key Personnel to enter their ORCID ID into SciENcv in the Persistent Identifier (PID) section of the Common Forms.
• NIH will require all Senior/Key Personnel to link their ORCID ID to their eRA Commons Personal Profile. For information on linking an ORCID ID to the eRA Commons Personal Profile see the ORCID ID topic in the eRA Commons online help.

Biographical sketch

• NIH will no longer accept the NIH Biographical Sketch format page.
• NIH will require the use of the Common Form for Biographical Sketch.
• NIH will require the use of a new NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement to collect the “Personal Statement,” “Contributions to Science” and “Honors” statements.

Current and pending (other) support

• NIH will no longer accept the NIH Other Support format page.
• NIH will require the use of the Common Form for Current and Pending (Other) Support.

See the NIH Notice of these changes.

 

Required RESEARCH SECURITY TRAINING

The federal government has increased their focus on disclosing affiliations, financial support and other resources available to university researchers applying for federal funds due to increased attention from foreign influence and research security risks.  The federal sponsors are focusing on ensuring there is no budgetary, scientific or commitment-related overlap.  As a result, the federal government has updated their regulations regarding research security and disclosure.

To address the requirements of the new regulations, NEOMED is requiring that every key personnel included on grants for extramural funding complete the Research Security Advanced Refresher course in CITI.  This course should be completed before any federal reports or proposals are submitted to ensure that all faculty and staff completing the reports or preparing proposal documents are aware of the disclosure requirements and taking adequate precautions in securing data.

The CITI system can be accessed here and select “My Courses” at the top of the page after logging in.

Select “View Courses” for Northeast Ohio Medical University

Scroll to the bottom and select “Add a Course”

Scroll through the course options and at question 12, select “Research Security Advanced Refresher.”  You will likely have to answer the other questions as “Not at this time.”

Once you have added the course, you can “Start Now” to complete the 8 modules.  Completion of the 8 modules will take approximately 2.5 hours.

National Institutes of Health Proposal Requirement Update

The NIH will implement a new Data Management and Sharing Policy for all grant applications submitted on or after January 25, 2023.

Science and Security

Resources for Disclosure of Outside Interests and International Collaboration