What do your policies say?  Are your faculty allowed to receive salary
from another institution (many places don't allow this)?  Are they going
to give her an appointment?  What does that do to her appointment at
your institution?

That said, the prime institution theoretically should be the one which
is doing the bulk of the work.  Subcontractors do substantive but lesser
pieces of the research at their site(s).  There are unanswered questions
here, such as the other institution's willingness to trust a federal
award and the required compliance to someone who doesn't actually report
to them, and the faculty member's ability adequately to oversee research
at another institution.

Parenthetically, we don't allow this situation.  To be a PI here, one
must be an employee of the University or be an incoming employee who
will be on campus by the time the grant is active.

Joni.

Jon Elizabeth Hart, MPA, CIP
Senior Director, Sponsored Programs Administration
Senior Director, Human Subjects Protections Program
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Ave., NY, NY 10021-6399
tel:  (212) 327-8054; fax:  (212) 327-8400
email:  xxxxxx@rockefeller.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On
Behalf Of Donna Berger
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:17 PM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: [RESADM-L] Faculty member serving as PI on another
organization's R01

We have a faculty member who is conducting research in collaboration
with
another institution on an NIH grant. She wants to submit an R01 through
the
other organization naming herself as PI. Initially, the proposal (for
2.5M)
was to be submitted by us, but since much of the work will occur at the
other site, she is requesting that we become a subcontractor and that
the
other organization take the lead.  The other organization wants to
allocate
part of her time to the prime budget (theirs)  and part of her time to
the
subcontract budget (ours).  In effect, she would be PI for the prime and
subaward.  To complicate matters further, her base salary here will be
less
than the base salary used by the submitting institution. Has anyone ever
run into a situation like this before?  Aside from the fact that we have
been working on this for over a month and now the tables have turned, is
any of this kosher?? The other organization claims to do this sort of
thing
all the time and wants to enter a consortial agreement with us.  Please
advise!

Donna Berger, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Academic Grants
Marist College
Phone: 845-575-3670

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