The Pre-Award Team provides investigators with guidance and expertise in:
- Finding funding opportunities and navigating sponsor rules, guidelines and requirements;
- Planning and designing projects and conceptualizing ideas, goals and outcomes;
- Setting tasks and work plans;
- Developing budgets;
- Drafting narrative summaries and descriptions;
- Contacting program officers to ensure projects are in line with sponsor priorities;
- Complying with approved institutional methods of proposal submission to sponsors;
- Assisting with contract negotiations in coordination with the Office of Legal Affairs as required for award approval;
- Negotiating award acceptance, including post-submission modifications such as budget modifications, narrative revisions and clarifications; and
- Observing mandatory compliance for research involving human subjects, animals subjects, biosafety, export controls, research integrity and financial conflict of interest.