Re: Remote PI? Steinert, Bruce, W 11 Feb 2005 16:13 EST
Brilliant! Why didn't NIH think about this? One remote 'Super-PI' overseeing all grants? Wow, think of the savings. I'd like to eavesdrop on the call to the agency to explain this one. Sorry, this is someone's feeble attempt to prevent a revenue drop on the funding report. The 'remote PI' is just a short hop to a 'virtual disaster'. Compliance is tough enough with a PI just down the hall. Or, you could order a few dozen orange jumpsuits in various sizes. No sense waiting until the last minute. Bruce Steinert, PhD, CCRA Director, Clinical Trials Administration Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City, MO -----Original Message----- From: Patricia Hagen PhD [mailto:xxxxxx@SLU.EDU] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:59 PM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: [RESADM-L] Remote PI? Good afternoon friends. One of the more creative divisions of our university has come up with an interesting new twist to avoiding grant transfers. It's called the "remote PI." What this means is that when a faculty member leaves the institution to take a faculty position at another institution, this division proposes to keep the grant here at our institution and subcontract the PI work to the new institution. Then, one doesn't have to go through "bothersome" grant transfer paperwork and also we get to keep paying people at the original institution off the grant. I think the whole concept is LOONY. I see all kinds of compliance worries related to the situation where the institution which is responsible for the grant has a P.I. which is no longer its employee. The latest attempt at this creative approach involves a Department of State grant. A predecessor approved the "remote pi" idea for this particular grant, but the Department of State is not completely comfortable with this, so they've come up with yet another alternative--they'll approve the "remote PI" situation if our institution contracts the work directly to the individual faculty member, and not to her new institution. They could care less if the two institutions contract with one another! Oy vey! Am I on another planet? Please, colleagues, am I being too overcautious when I shout "NO!" into the phone? Be honest. I am all about service. Thanks, Patty Hagen Saint Louis University ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================