Mary,

In my experience, the grant usually goes with the PI.  If it is a single investigator award and it is for his research, it makes sense to move with the investigator.

If the project is very specific to your institution or region such as an educational program, it may make sense to request approval to change investigators and keep the project at the university.

If there are two investigators and one is staying.  Then your institution may want to press the issue of keeping the grant at your institution and subcontracting to the investigator at the new institution.  In my experience, if the lead investigator is moving, the grant goes and a subcontract comes back.  However, it's negotiable between the
investigator, the agency and the institution.

The toughest situation in my experience has been when an investigator left and wanted to take equipment.  The investigator had spearheaded the proposals to obtain the equipment; however, the university had cost-shared it and other investigators were in line to utilize it.

Welcome to research administration!

Ruth Tallman
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Lehigh University
526 Brodhead Avenue
Bethlehem, PA  18015
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Mary Cortina wrote:

> Hello. I am new to the list and fairly new to my position. I have a two part question and would appreciate your feedback. Here goes:
>
> My provost has asked under what circumstances would an institution not allow the grant to follow the PI to his/her new institution; I told him it is customary for a university to allow the grants to go with the PI, that it is common practice.  So a two-part question, what is customary and why, and under what circumstances would a university deny?
>
> thanks !
>
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