Re: Faculty member serving as PI on another organization's R01 Jon Hart 08 Jul 2004 14:39 EST
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 ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================