I agree wth Stuart.  However, if the investigator has not finalized future
plans, he will need to submit from the current institution.  I would argue
that unless the scientific argument hinges on use of essential human or
physical resources at the current school, and would affect the scientific
review, there is no ethical issue here.  The commitment of your resources,
if indirectly related to the project, poses no deception unless you are
secretly conspiring to never support this person's work regardless of
circumstances.  Don't let honesty become incapacitating.

Charlie

> His or her next employer should be able to handle the submission, if the
> hiring has been formalized.  As a campus grants officer at another
> campus I submitted proposals a few times on behalf of professors who had
> not yet actually arrived, relying on departmental and school
> confirmations that the person had been hired and would be present when
> the grant started.  That would be cleaner for both organizations than
> doing the transfer later.  It's also in the professor's own interest to
> do it that way - to have good news for the next employer, rather than
> being remembered by former colleagues for creating a pointless burden.
>
>
>
> Stuart Ross
>
> UC Irvine
>
>
>
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> To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
> Subject: [RESADM-L] Proposal ethics
>
>
>
> There is a faculty member currently preparing an NIH proposal, however,
> he knows he will be leaving our institution June 30, 2006.
>
> In preparing this proposal for 5 years, he will be committing our
> institution's resources, yet he will be gone by the time it is awarded.
> The start date is November 2006.
>
> If awarded, the grant would no doubt be transferred to wherever he is
> going.
>
> So there is a policy issue and ethics involved here.  Should this
> proposal even be submitted from our institution?
>
> Has anyone faced this predicament?  Any guidance would be much
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Laura L. Kubec
>
> Grants Administrator
>
> Keck Graduate Institute
>
> 535 Watson Drive
>
> Claremont, CA  91711
>
> 909-607-9313
>
>
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