This retreat, held on Aug. 20, 2015, is intended for research investigators in all disciplines – the sciences, engineering, humanities and social sciences – to learn about the resources available to them at USC. Especially welcome are all new and junior faculty. For this retreat, the USC Center for Excellence in Research (CER) will bring
Promotions We are pleased to announce the promotions or appointments of five of our faculty in the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015. Our congratulations to all! Joseph Ouzounian MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Clinical Scholar) Ouzounian is a graduate of both the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the Obstetrics and
In the last issue, I introduced two new clinical research tools in development, the Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) and the Research Data Warehouse. In this issue, I would like to let you know about three e-tools that are already in operation and designed to make your research better and easier. The three e-tools are
Finding USC researchers with active clinical trials has never been easier. In an effort to highlight clinical trials expertise at USC, SC CTSI has launched a new feature to our local expert finder tool, USC Health Sciences Profiles. Now it is easy to discover faculty members and postdoctoral scholars in the health sciences who are
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS Professor Hong-Wei Dong leads a team working on an ambitious NIH-funded Mouse Connectome Project at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC. The first major milestone research paper entitled “Neural Networks of the Mouse Neocortex” was published in Cell in the Feb. 2014 issue
Are you currently looking for funding opportunities? For a listing of current extramural and intramural funding opportunities, please visit: http://cafe.usc.edu/KeckNewsletter/funding.html USC Office of Research has implemented a new simpler portal for submission of internal research proposals (http://uscapplicationportal.weebly.com/) including both external proposals that are institutionally limited and internal funding programs, such as Zumberge and the Collaboration
On November 3, 2014, the Keck School of Medicine of USC went live with Kuali Coues (KC), the new USC grant and contract proposal submission system. Since the training period in August, the university has successfully routed and submitted 287 proposals through the KC system. Coming Soon! Faculty and staff training on grants.gov system-to-system grant
Read these updates first: NIH salary cap increases to $183,300 effective January 11, 2015. Go to: Notice of Salary Limitation on Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts (NOT-OD-15-049). For all NIH training grants, pre-doc and post-doc stipend rates are increased effective October 1, 2014. Go to: National Institutes of Health, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service
Effective December 26, 2014, a new federal guidance will go into effect eliminating the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) circulars A-21, A-110, and A-133. These circulars will be replaced by A-81, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards. The purpose of the guidance is to streamline administrative burdens, and to
Investigators can find most institutional identification information needed for grant applications at the following website, including the address of the HSC Department of Contracts and Grants Office, Congressional District and Federal Wide Assurances for Research Subjects. https://research.usc.edu/files/2014/04/General-Information-Page.pdf
