NIH requires that NC State University process progress reports in such a manner that we "secure and retain at the organization a written assurance from the Principal Investigator (PI) prior to submitting a progress report..." (see note /1/). NIH requires this because the NIH progress report requires a re-assurance of many representations and certifications such as that the program is being conducted free of unmanaged significant financial conflicts of interest, free of research misconduct, human and animal subjects are properly managed, select agents and environmental concerns are properly managed, etc. (see note /2/).
The way ALL university's obtain and retain these assurances is through an internal approval process. At NC State our internal approval process is PINS - the Project Information Navigation System. This system captures all of the requisite representations and certifications for both applications for funding and NIH progress reports (see note /3/ for PINS reps and certs).
All R- series NIH grants and many other types of NIH grants require that the annual progress report be filed using eCommons (see note /4/).
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