Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS)
and Human Services (HHS)
October 7, 2021
RFA-DK-21-024 Pediatric Centers of Excellence in Nephrology (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
The purpose of this Notice is to modify requirements for personnel budgets within the Application and Submission Instructions within RFA DK-21-024, Pediatric Centers of Excellence in Nephrology (P50 Clinical Trial Optional). The effort for the Biomedical Research Core Director has been changed and salary support for other personnel has been added within the Biomedical Research Core and the Research Project. Therefore, the following sections of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) have been revised to read as follows:
Section IV. Application and Submission Information, SF424 (R&R) Cover (Biomedical Research Core)
Budget (Biomedical Research Core)
Currently reads:
A Biomedical Research Core Director should be named and should contribute a minimum level of effort of 2.4 months (20%). The overall PD/PI may serve as a Biomedical Research Core Director. Personnel with less than 10% effort are considered Other Significant Contributors. Salary for participants with less than 10% should not be requested.
Modified to read:
A Biomedical Research Core Director should be named and should contribute a minimum level of effort of 1 month (8.3%). The overall PD/PI may serve as a Biomedical Research Core Director. A Core Director with requisite expertise may devote greater effort to the core with justification. Salary support for technicians and other core personnel is allowable with justification in accordance with the volume and type of work in the core. Stipends (and tuition) for research trainees (e.g. graduate students, postdoctoral fellows) are not available through the Center.
Section IV. Application and Submission Information SF424 (R&R) Cover (Research Project)
Budget (Research Project)
Currently reads:
Minimum level of effort is 1.2 person months (10% effort) for the Project Leader. A Research Center Director may also serve as a Project Leader. Personnel with less than 10% effort are considered Other Significant Contributors, and salary support for such individuals should not be requested. Clinical personnel whose primary responsibility is participant recruitment or collection of information or samples for the purposes of phenotyping may request less than 10% effort if highly justified.
Modified to read:
Minimum level of effort is 1.2 person months (10% effort) for the Project Leader. The salary amount charged to the PCEN grant must be commensurate with the time spent on project activities and is subject to institutional and NIH salary policies. A Research Center Director may also serve as a Project Leader. Salary support for technicians and other personnel is allowable with justification. Stipends (and tuition) for research trainees (e.g. graduate students, postdoctoral fellows) are not available through the Center.
All other aspects of this FOA remain unchanged.
Susan R. Mendley, M.D.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Telephone: 301-827-1861
Email: susan.mendley@nih.gov