Teams need to comply with USDA regulations and organizational policies for the care and use of animals in their animal research. But with the umpteen specimens, bulky study data, and constant monitoring that is required, researchers and LARS staff can easily lose track of the status of their lab animals. On top of it, tracking...
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COVID-19 has been an exceptional epidemic for its scale and impact on societies’ “life as usual” approach. Particularly in the research space, COVID-19 outbreak has raised concerns among sponsors and research teams about how the outbreak has impacted research study operations, and how to address a similar situation better in future. At the onset of...
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In this ever-changing world, with real-time digital data available at the finger-tips, the potential has never been higher for laboratories to re-imagine their compliance infrastructure. Digital compliance solutions bring people, projects, and research together to create one view of all your research experiments. It facilitates collaboration, ensures the documentation, and simplifies the review, approval and...
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Disclosures – Paper forms. Spreadsheets. Documents. Disparate systems and data exchange formats with no standard process to manage, prepare and mitigate risks. The task of managing disclosures and conflicts of interest they bring forth is about to get tougher – with workforces evolving, going global and shifting cultural expectations. Your COI management needs to evolve...
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The US Federal Government provides financial support in the form of grants to individuals and institutions for research in the areas of public interest or wellbeing of common citizens. The projects are funded out of the general federal revenue. The federal government has a website ‘grants.gov’ as a single access point for all types of...
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The US Federal Government provides financial support in the form of grants to individuals and institutions for research in the areas of public interest or wellbeing of common citizens. The projects are funded out of the general federal revenue. The federal government has a website ‘grants.gov’ as a single access point for all types of grants. This site has a page titled ‘Learning Center’.
The ‘Learning Center’ of grants.gov is, in essence, the gateway to federal grants. This page provides detailed information about the categories of grants, the policies, eligibility, the programs, terms and conditions of award, agencies handling grants and other necessary information. These help an aspirant to pick up the right category of grant for his /her project.
Once you have picked up the category of grant that is most suitable for your/your organization’s project, you will need to get yourself registered with grants.gov. After you are registered, grants.gov will assign a unique workspace to you for your grant management.
The assigned workspace on the site is like a dashboard for you to create and organise your documents connected with your application for a grant. The main features are as follows:
- You can access and edit a number of forms simultaneously within an application.
- You can fill up the forms online or these can be downloaded and filled up offline as per your convenience.
- The offline PDF forms can be seamlessly integrated with the online forms.
- The forms on the workspace are reusable. This helps reduce duplication of effort during the process.
- You can validate your data to check errors, if any, before submitting your application. This helps to reduce the chance of rejection on technical grounds.
- You can also invite external organisations to help you to prepare the documents for submission.
- You can create your own application workflow.
- If the applicant is an organisation, it can create custom roles for its affiliates and assign the same to them. For this, the affiliates will also have to be registered with grants.gov.
Once the application is complete in all respects, the same can be submitted directly from your workspace. The workspace also has the facility to track an application till its final disposal.
Most of the agencies insist on submission and processing of applications digitally. Key Solutions has developed a web-based module called eGrants. This module makes grant management pleasingly simple. It is a user-friendly and versatile tool. It provides the necessary solution and clarity to various queries of an applicant. This not only accelerates the process of grant management, but also enhances the chances of getting a grant. eGrants also facilitates post-submission tracking of the applications until the same are finally awarded.
If you have a project in mind and are scouting for funds through grants.gov, go ahead and take help from eGrants to fulfill your desire.
Comprehensive and Integrated Post Approval Monitoring Research is the cornerstone of advancement in science. Medical researchers spend time and money in search of cures for many ailments. For this, they need to expose animals and humans to a variety of untested, unknown elements. It is important to ensure that these studies are conducted as per...
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Human Subjects Research: Individuals who are the subjects of research will be asked to contribute their time and assume risk to advance the research enterprise, which benefits society at large. U.S. federal regulations governing the protection of human subjects in research have been in existence for more than three decades. The Department of Health, Education,...
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Performance Measurement at the SPO At least since the 1980s, organizations across all sectors have attempted to implement systematic performance measurement to improve business processes and track strategic outcomes. In their analysis of the practice data from the 2002 SRA BearingPoint Benchmarking Survey, William Kirby and Paul Waugaman blame Tom Peters, the business consultant who...
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Existence (or assumption) of a Conflict of Interest (eCOI) has the potential to jeopardize a research project and tarnish the reputation of the research organization conducting the investigation. An important part of research administration is to eliminate existence of COI before it can have a damaging effect on the study being performed. As a part...
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