Our goal is to enable faculty members and other scholars to submit grant proposals and to manage subsequent non-financial responsibilities of the award, resubmission, and renewal processes.
OGS Dept Functions
- Find funding opportunities and offer one-on-one consultation with interested trainees and faculty members, including state, federal, private, and foundation sponsors
- Targeted dissemination of funding opportunities
- Interpret proposal guidelines and help with building application materials- eligibility, forms, institutional data
- Demystify DoD, NIH, NSF and other federal and non-federal policies, procedures, and jargons
- Grantsmanship: Assist with writing, editing, proof-reading, proposal review and critique and creating more competitive proposals
Meet Our Team
The Office of Grant Support (OGS) is comprised of four individuals who provide pre-award administrative assistance to the Einstein-Montefiore community.
Morgan “Caitlin” McKenna
Director
718.430.3642
Belfer 1106
- AOR (Authorized Organizational Representative), SO (Signing Official), Business Official (BO)
- Policy and procedures, seminars, trainings, and workshops
- Agreement and contract negotiation with sponsors
- Unique Opportunities, BAA opportunities, large grants, and contracts
- Manuscript editing and enhancement
- Complex and multi-institutional and multi-PI grants
- Grants and awards data, letter of support, and certification
- International grants and collaborations
- NYS Grants Gateway budget modification, submission, and approval
- Post-submission material and communication (PRAM) and FRAM
- Sponsor communication and final approval of all submissions
- eRA Commons issues related to submission including ASSIST (Contract Indranil first)
- Change of funding opportunity or type for an application
- DMS document review
- Institutional certifications
Indranil Basu, PhD, MBA
Assistant Director
718.430.2238
Belfer 1106
- AOR, SO, and Business Official (BO)
- Assisting with the day-to-day operations of the office. Training and workshops for funding/grant development
- Finding funding and OGS updates – SPIN Portal. One-on-one consultation for strategizing grant development
- Managing eRA Commons profiles and resolving issues. Templates for grant applications and DMSP issues
- DOD applications on the eBRAP portal. Proposal Central portal, Simons Award Manager (SAM) portal, Breakthrough T1D portal (formerly JDRF).
- Limited submission application management. Communicating with the sponsors/agencies
- All non-federal grant processes, including NYS grants. IACUC, IRB, OCT, and OCI liaison. NCE, RS, FIS, and JIT submissions
- NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs)
Latesha Paisley
Senior Grant Specialist
718.430.3643
Belfer 1106
- SO (Signing Official), BO (Business Official), AO (Administrative Official), FSR (Financial Reporting users)
- Agreement and contract negotiation with sponsors
- Application and budget review with approval through internal system
- Review indirect cost reduction/waiver and no salary support requests for internal approval
- Verify employment status and salary of the applicant(s) and ensure accuracy of proposed efforts, especially current NIH salary cap for PI, key personnel, and other personnel.
- Verify subaward SOI’s and LOI’s and process for signature
- Coordinate completion and signing of subrecipient forms
What OGS Does
- Manages Awards Committee nominations (for limited submissions)
- Helps with submission of non-competing applications, Just-in-Time (JIT), Supplemental Materials, Research Program Progress Report (RPPR)
- Provides institutional data, letters of support, sample applications
- Assists with communications or communicates with grant-making agencies
- Helps with submitting Relinquishing Statement (RS), Final Invention Statement (FIS) and No Cost Extension (NCE)
- Helps with finding resources for improving grant applications
Please send your email requests to OGS@einsteinmed.edu.
