I recently encountered a problem with the transfer of an NIH grant
from another institution to UM. The transfer involves international
graduate students, who have student visas, who are finished with
their course work at the  originating institution, but not their
dissertation  and who would like to graduate from the originating institution.
The PI would like them to complete their research and dissertation work
 with him at UM.  We thought to protect both  the students' status at the
 originating institution and their  visa status  by arranging a subcontract to
 the
 originating institution to cover  the payments to the students and their fees
 at the originating institution. Their status at the home institution would
thus be protected and they would simply  be working off-site at UM on
research. I had seen this type of arrangement done on a DOD award.
 The problem is that the NIH grants specialist has indicated such
a subcontract is not allowable with NIH. The students either have to
move totally to UM, or if we plan to subcontract they must  stay at the
 originating institution under the direction of another PI.
 Has anyone had experience with this kind of situation? How
did you handle it? We would like to make it a win-win situation, not
a win-lose situation for both the PI and  international students
respectively.
the
direction of another PI
Kathleen L. Sukanek
Associate Director of Research
Office of Research

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