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Proposal Submission

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION:

Your grant application must include the followings pages:

  1. Face Page
  2. Description, Performance Sites, Key Personnel
  3. Research Grant Table of Contents (Optional)
  4. Modular Budget forms
  5. Biosketch for ALL Key Personnel listed on budget pages (NOT TO EXCEED 4 PAGES FOR EACH)
    (PI must provide previous or current experience supervising URM students in research.)
  6. Resources Page
  7. Research Plan [a - d sections]. Please follow the page limits below:
    For SC1 Projects – 25 page limit
    For SC2 Projects – 15 page limit
    For SC3 Projects – 15 page limit

    8. You MUST ADDRESS all sections below. If not applicable, please state with “N/A”, and USE continuation pages.

    1. Specific Aim (PI must also explain developmental objectives)
    2. Background & Significance
      Institutional Data must be an additional sub-heading and limited to two pages and counted toward page limit [see SCORE Office will provide this Data]
    3. Preliminary Studies/Progress Report
    4. Research Design & Methods

    SC2 grants ONLY:
    “Role of the Mentor” must be included as a subheading to explain how it relates to project and PI development.

    • Human Subjects
    • Vertebrate Animals
    • Select Agent Research
    • Literature Cited
    • Multiple PI Leadership Plan
    • Consortium/Contractual Arrangements
    • Resource Sharing
    • Letters of Support (e.g. Consultants)
    • How results of the pilot project will be used to develop a long term research project plan (SC2 only)

    8. Check List

    9. Appendices (if any) - 1 set

About 40% of all SC proposals submitted to NIH were returned to the PIs because these proposals were determined to be “non-responsive” by NIH. The following are examples of common reasons why SC1, SC2 and SC3 applications have been found to be non-responsive (from NIH Program Update located at the SCORE Website):

  • Research proposal outside of the NIH mission
  • Non-compliant with the application forms and instructions (e.g. excessive number of pages)
  • Lack of institutional data
  • Lack of the PI's developmental objectives
  • PIs who are fully developed and thus not eligible to apply for SCORE
  • PIs who are not at a SCORE eligible institution
  • For SC2 applications, lack of a mentor, his/her biographical sketch and of explanation of the mentor's role in the
  • PI's development plan
  • Co-PIs or co-investigators (which are unallowable)
  • Lack of budget page or personnel justification
  • Lack of a progress report if a PI has had previous SCORE support
  • Lack of an introduction in revised applications
  • Applications from institutions not eligible to participate in SCORE

SELECTION OF SCORE PROPOSALS BY THE UTSA SCORE PROGRAM

All research proposals submitted to the UTSA SCORE Program will be reviewed by External Reviewers and SCORE Program Committees prior to being designated as a SCORE proposal for submission to NIH. Selection of research proposals will be made by the SCORE Project Review and the SCORE Advisory Committees.

The criteria of selection will be:

  1. Strong scientific merit and relevance to research areas of NIH (biomedical and behavioral)
  2. Strong potentials for the development of faculty and institutional research
  3. Excellent past record or commitment of training of minority students
  4. Responsiveness to the NIH-SCORE program announcements (see Section C above for examples of non-responsive applications)

TARGET DATES [for current NIH Deadline Submission of January 25th, 2010]:

October 11th, 2009        Campus Announcement to all full-time TTR faculty

November 11th, 2009      Final and complete proposal submitted through the CAYUSE
                          system to UTSA SCORE Program system to UTSA SCORE Program Office by 5:00PM

December 22nd, 2009      Announcement of selected SCORE Proposals by UTSA SCORE Program

January 20th, 2009          Submission of SCORE Proposals to NIH (receipt date: January 25, 2009)