NIH Policy Change: Subawards to Foreign Institutions

In response to an audit by the Office of the Inspector General, the National Institutes of Health has updated its policy on subawards , which are the legal instruments used to work with other institutions under grants issued to The Ohio State University. The most significant change impacts only foreign subawardees. Foreign institutions will be required to “provide access to copies of all lab notebooks, all data, and all documentation that supports the research outcomes as described in the progress report” at least once a year. This requirement, which was announced mid-September, goes into effect January 1, 2024. The Office of Research is working to understand how to implement this new policy. As always, if you are planning any research proposals involving foreign institutions or researchers based outside the U.S., please contact Karla Gengler-Nowak so that the appropriate offices can be notified to ensure your research collaborations run as smoothly as possible