RESEARCH & COMMERCIALIZATION NEWS

• COS Funding Opportunities: Online User Training Available
  
  COS Funding Opportunities, a database to which UMSL recently subscribed, offers excellent online User Training sessions that you can view at your convenience. Sessions include brief overviews of COS Funding Opportunities and COS Expertise along with full training sessions on funding opportunities and alerts, advanced features, and user profiles/expertise.
  
  Also check the User Training web page for upcoming webinars. The next session, "COS Funding Opportunities and Funding Alert," is scheduled for Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at noon (CST). Enroll
  
  

• NIH, AHRQ and NIOSH Eliminate Two-Day Error Correction for Due Dates after Jan. 24, 2011
  
  Beginning with the January 25, 2011, deadline for NIH, AHRQ and NIOSH proposals, applicants will no longer be permitted to correct system-identified application errors or warnings after the NIH submission deadline. In preparation for this change, applicants are encouraged to submit their application early to allow time to make any necessary corrections and view the application in the eRA Commons before the submission deadline. The NIH provides many resources to help applicants ensure a successful submission, including annotated application "cheat sheets" and tips to avoid common errors. For more information about the chance, see NIH Notice NOT-OD-10-123.
  
  
  
• University of Missouri System, Washington University get $16M in Royalties
  (St. Louis Business Journal, 12/23/2010)
  
  The University of Missouri System and Washington University in St. Louis earned more than $16.7 million in royalties and license fees last year, a new report shows.
  
  The University of Missouri's four campuses generated a total of $10.4 million in patents and other payments for rights to academic inventions, five start-up businesses and 48 new patent applications in 2009, according to an annual study by the Association of University Technology Managers. Read More
  
  Also see "AUTM Survey: University Licensing Strong Despite Economy" for an overall summary of the AUTM report. (IPWatchdog, 12/17/2011)
  
  Editor's note: you can download a report on technology transfer activity at UMSL through FY2010 from the ORA web site Publications page.

THE BASICS: Policies & Procedures

• Compliance Policies & Procedures
• Fiscal Post-Award Roles and Responsibilities (PDF)
• Guide to Managing Converging Interests in Research -- potential conflict of interest (PDF)
• Internal Controls -- effort verification, transaction approvals by PI, payroll, non-owned equipment (PDF)
• ORA Policies & Procedures: Grant Submission Deadlines -- budgets, electronic submissions, signature page (PDF)
• Technology Transfer FAQs (PDF)
• ORA Policies & Procedures (all)

The Office of Research Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis publishes the Spirit of Innovation Newsletter once each month. The online and e-mail publication is designed to inform the campus community of grants received; highlight the research and commercialization accomplishments of UMSL faculty, graduate students and staff; and provide information on important deadlines and events. Also included is recent news about research and commercialization at the University and elsewhere. Recipients are UMSL faculty, students and staff. E-mail wilgerst@umsl.edu if you have questions, comments or suggestions on content.

The Office of Research Administration provides leadership and support in the development, execution and operation of programs in sponsored research, technology transfer and economic development throughout the University of Missouri-St. Louis. (ORA Mission)

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