It was a very helpful discussion, I appreciate all the responses. It is
safe to say that in the absence of the NIH policy, there is no consensus
as to whether close out must occur while the project is awaiting a
competitive renewal. I think we all agree that a no cost extension would
have been a good solution if there was another justification then
keeping the grant technically active while resubmission is being
reviewed. Provided of course that we would've processed the extension
before the grant ended (too late now).

Here is my conservative conclusion. Although submitting the final report
appears the logical thing to do, there is some anecdotal evidence that
it may pose issues for the competitive renewal. Therefore a prudent
solution is to wait with the report until the outcome of the new
application is known.

Thank you as always!

Zoya

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	final technical reports for NIH projects under competitive
renewal
Date: 	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:36:16 -0400
From: 	Zoya Hamilton <xxxxxx@tufts.edu>
To: 	xxxxxx@hrinet.org

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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Zoya Hamilton, CRA
Sr. Associate Director, Research Administration
Office of the Vice Provost
Tufts University
Tel (617) 636-6709
Fax (617) 636-2917
http://www.tufts.edu/central/

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