Message-ID: <4665A22C.5050900@research.ucsb.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:49:32 -0700 From: Cora Diaz Organization: UCSB User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CGLISTSERV Subject: Revised Instructions for NIH Grants.Gov Submissions Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Everyone,

Good News :-)

For NIH Grants.gov submission only:

1) Entering the Liaison information in the "Person to be Contacted" field of the SF424 (Block 5), will generate e-mails from the NIH eRA Commons regarding the status of the application including warnings/errors. SPO and PI will also continue to receive these emails.

Department Liaisons - Please begin entering your contact information in block 5 of the SF-424 for NIH submissions only.

2) NIH has also announced a new function entitled "Delegation of PI Status Access". PI's can now delegate the ability to view the status of the electronically submitted applications to any commons-registered individual with an ASST role (aka Dept Liaisons). This new menu choice is found in Admin menu by selecting Account/Delegate Status. Once in the Delegate Status screen, PI's will see a list of individuals registered with the ASST role and can "Delegate" and "Remove" delegation for those individuals.Once this delegation has been granted, the ASST will be able to view and access the list of applications associated with the PI. Individuals can have this authority delegated to them by more than one PI. The view these delegated individuals will have is equivalent to that of a Signing Official view and does not include access to submit, access to confidential information; e.g., summary statements and priority scores.

Ask your PI's to log into the commons website at: https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/ and delegate this new function for you. This action will eliminate the temptation to use poor security practices (Sharing PI username and password). To anyone that shared their account login information (you know who you are), please use this delegate authority option and change your passwords immediately.


ERA Team