Administrative Panel on Laboratory Animal Care - Answers handles the oversight of animal use in
research projects
ASSIST - Answers NIH's online system for the preparation, submission and tracking of grant applications
through Grants.gov to NIH.
Award - Answers official document notifying the grantee and others that an award has been made and
stating the terms and conditions of the award.
Biosketch - Answers used to highlight each individual's qualifications for a specific role in the proposed
project.
Budget Justification - Answers allows you to explain the need for each line item in the budget, as well as
show the breakdown of calculations used to arrive at the amount in each line of the budget.
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine - Answers sponsor for stem cell related proposals
Capital Equipment - Answers purchase price over $5,000 and a useful life of at least one year.
Career Development Award - Answers To provide institutional research training opportunities (including
international) to trainees at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. Research is usually
performed under the guidance of a mentor.
Carryforward Request - Answers the ability granted by a sponsor - either permitted automatically or
requiring approval - to the grantee to move funds previously unspent in a past budget period into the
new budget period while also obligating the fully anticipated amount for the new budget period.
Clinical Trial - Answers research studies that test how well new medical approaches work in people.
Clinical Trial Research Process Manager - Answers The Clinical Trial Research Process Managers (RPMs)
and Clinical Trial Contract officers have joined to form the Clinical Trial Team (CT-RMG). CT-RMG
supports industry sponsored clinical trial contracts. OSR will continue to support all other contracts and
those subcontracts and subawards not associated with clinical trials.
Collaborative IRB Training Initiative - Answers Completion of human subject research training by all staff
working on a research project (all investigators and other study personnel, including all persons who are
responsible for the design, conduct, data analysis or reporting) is one of the requirements for protocol
approval by the IRB.
Conflict of Interest - Answers occurs when there is a divergence between an individual's private interests
and his or her professional obligations to the University such that an independent observer might
reasonably question whether the individual's professional actions or decisions are determined by
considerations of personal financial gain.
, Cost Sharing - Answers represents that portion of the total project costs of a sponsored agreement
borne by the University, rather than by the sponsor.
Dean of Research - Answers Ann Arvin
Direct Costs - Answers Expenses incurred during the course of a research project that can be attributed
directly to the project. Some examples include salaries of researchers, equipment, and scientific
supplies.
Effort Certification - Answers Payroll distribution certification is Stanford's means of providing assurance
to federal sponsors that effort was devoted at a level that reasonably reflects the activity for which the
employee is compensated by the institution.
eProtocol - Answers Stanford system for tracking research compliance approvals.
Expanded Authorities - Answers Policy implemented by some federal granting agencies which delegates
certain prior approval authorities to grantee institutions. This delegation allows for internal university
approval of administrative and spending actions, thus avoiding delays in project progress.
Facilities and Administration Costs - Answers costs that are incurred for common or joint objectives and
therefore cannot be identified readily and specifically with a particular sponsored project, an
instructional activity, or any other institutional activity. This percentage is applied to the expenditures of
federally sponsored projects in order to recover University overhead costs related to building and
equipment depreciation, interest, and general administration.
Federal Identifier Number - Answers When a grant is awarded by a federal agency, it is assigned a
unique federal award identifier number specific to that grant. This identifier is required in order to apply
for a supplemental, competing continuation or noncompeting continuation application.
Fellowship - Answers Funding mechanism payable by stipend for the purpose of providing a training
experience for the recipient.
Fringe Benefits - Answers covers the costs of employee benefits.
Funding Opportunity Announcement - Answers notice in Grants.gov of a federal grant funding
opportunity.
Gift - Answers defined as any item of value given to the University by a donor who expects nothing
significant of value in return, other than recognition and disposition of the gift in accordance with the
donor's wishes.
Graduate Student - Answers A university student, usually already possessing a four year degree, who is
working on a master's degree or Ph.D.
Grant - Answers Financial assistance mechanism providing funds to carry out a sponsored project.