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Acknowledge CO-PIs in proposals and agency information systems Working Group on Alignment of Funding Mechanisms and Scientific Opportunity Description: The change in science from principally single-investigator driven research to an increased emphasis on team science involving multiple disciplines requires the recognition by funding agencies and performing institutions of potentially shared leadership of such projects. In some federal agencies, both existing policy and data systems permit assigning the principal investigator role to only one individual, who has the responsibility and authority for all decisions and scientific management of the project. Lack of formal recognition for shared leadership of major projects has begun to inhibit the development of some potentially fruitful collaborations. One form of recognition is credit for obtaining federal research support, which is frequently considered as one criterion in promotion and tenure considerations by universities. The universities depend significantly on federal data sources for information about their own faculty’s participation in federally funded research, and when those data sources cannot and do not reflect the actual participation of scientific collaborators in the funded projects they can lead to distortions in perception of performance of individuals, departments, and whole universities. Scope and Key Results: The goal of this project is to develop a consistent approach among federal funding agencies to acknowledging appropriately the scientific contributions of participants in interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research projects. The first stage will develop a government wide policy on Co-Principal Investigators as an official status on research proposals. Each agency will then develop its own implementation strategy for according Co-PI status in research proposals, award statements, and data information systems, using the common definition and grants management standards developed by the RBM Subcommittee.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20892 |
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The Subcommittee has established the following email address for receiving comments and questions related to its activities: nstc_rbm@od.nih.gov. |
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