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Update: The NIH Funding Cuts: Implications and Status of Lawsuits

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The proposed cuts would place a 15% indirect cost rate on all new and existing grant awards received by research institutions and universities....more

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NIH Cuts Research Funding for Indirect Costs

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) published guidance late on Feb. 7, 2025, setting the indirect cost rate for NIH grants at 15 percent, replacing the negotiated indirect cost rates at many universities, which typically...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In This Month’s E-News: November 2024

On the heels of a $7.6 million payment by Cleveland Clinic to settle allegations of False Claims Act (FCA) violations and unallowable sharing of passwords, Michael Lauer, NIH deputy director for extramural research, penned a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In This Month’s E-News: February 2024

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking strategies from Jeffrey W. Taub, M.D., to prevent future violations of human subject regulations the agency said were documented during site visits in September and October...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Bucking History, ORI Deputy Denies Requests For Misconduct NPRM Comment Extension

Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 12  (December 2023) In a move that is unprecedented in recent memory, a federal agency has denied a request to extend the comment period on a substantive proposed rule, turning down a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 19, Number 11. In This Month’s E-News: November 2022

NIH is unable to “ensure grants have appropriate cybersecurity provisions” and should make nearly a half-dozen changes, according to auditors for the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG). Yet, NIH said it had already made...more

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NIH Continues to Focus on Foreign Influence Issues: Updated Biosketch & Other Support Disclosure Forms

Key Points - Notice reflects NIH’s continued concerns regarding foreign influence and imposes significant new compliance obligations on both grantees and individual researchers. - Obligates grantees to provide NIH...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 17, Number 9. In This Month's E-News: September 2020

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 9 (August 20, 2020) - The Office of Management and Budget has published guidance for agencies and recipients of federal awards and contracts, finalizing a document issued in February...more

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Clinical research flexibilities during the COVID-19 public health emergency

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Recognizing the significant effects that COVID-19 has had on clinical research, the federal government has issued multiple guidance documents related to clinical research flexibilities to support continued research during the...more

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UPDATE: NIH Provides Grant Guidance Considering COVID-19 Impact on Research

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Recognizing the impact that COVID-19 can have on research and the NIH grant application process, the NIH has issued 5 pieces of guidance between March 9 and 16, 2020 addressing various impacts of COVID-19 on NIH research...more

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From Remote Oversight to Wind-Downs: Research Struggles in the Time of COVID-19

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 4 (April 2020) - “In an effort to minimize the risk of contracting or spreading COVID-19 in human participant research interactions and to preserve personal protective equipment for...more

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Top experts, by failing to disclose conflicts of interest, shortchange taxpayers

Elite researchers — professors and staff with ties to 20 of the nation’s top universities and the respected National Institutes of Health — may be failing to be as candid as institutions and laws require about their potential...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In Advance of NIH Action, Stakeholders Seek Harassment Database, Services for Victims

Report on Research Compliance 16, no. 12 (December 2019) - An independent federal office should be established to address “substantiated claims of sexual misconduct,” investigators should disclose related findings against...more

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President Obama Signs the 21st Century Cures Act Into Law

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The act creates faster, more flexible FDA drug and biologic review, new drug and device approval pathways, increases FDA funding, and reduces EHR administrative burdens. On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed into...more

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The 21st Century Cures Act: FDA Reforms Aim to Spur Innovation in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Health Research Sectors

On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Cures Act (Act), one of the most important pieces of health care and life sciences legislation in several decades. The Act is intended to spur the rapid...more

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