I agree with the other responses.  I worked for a PI with 46 years of
continuous funding who was given the same advice -- to operate under a no
cost extension while the continuation proposal was under review, in part to
retain the original grant number and continue the suffix numbering.  Also,
progress reporting is contained in the competitive renewal application, and
many investigators balk at the idea of also submitting a final report.

Sarah B. Dumais
Research Grant & Contract Specialist
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Rutgers, The State University
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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of
Donahue, Sherie (LLU)
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:50 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] final technical reports for NIH projects under
competitive renewal

In a similar situation, one of our PI's was directed by his NIH program
director not to close out the project while waiting for the new grant to
come through. I think that it has something to do with how many years of
continuous funding and how that looks to reviewers.

Sherie Donahue, MS
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Affairs
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA 92350
909/558-3928 or 909/558-1000, x83911
909/558-0244 (fax)

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Behalf Of Aull, Robert Matthew
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:06 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] final technical reports for NIH projects under
competitive renewal

Zoya,

My experience has been that NIH requires that projects remain open in
order to be competitively renewed, hence the need for a no-cost
extension while the competing proposal is being reviewed.

A truly final technical report and/or grant closeout would not be
appropriate so long the investigator has a pending application with the
same grant number (through the -A2 designation).

Robert Aull
Indiana University School of Medicine

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Zoya Hamilton
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:36 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] final technical reports for NIH projects under
competitive renewal

Colleagues,

Do you agree that final technical reports should be submitted for the
NIH grants that ended before the application for a competitive renewal
has been reviewed? I cannot think of a reason how submitting a final
progress report can be detrimental to the project's likelihood to be
funded in the new cycle. Has anyone experienced any problems with
closing grants and then getting a renewal funded? I am asking because
some PIs are not comfortable with the idea of closing their grants while
they are hoping that their competitive renewal to be funded.

Thanks so much for your inputs.

Zoya

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Office of the Vice Provost
Tufts University
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