Information for New Faculty

The Division of Biological Sciences at UCSD, has three full-time staff dedicated to assisting faculty and associated researchers with the submission of extramural funding requests. We provide guidance on funding opportunities, coordinate follow-up reports and keep an updated database of current and pending support information.

Useful information :

Salary tables: http://ocga2.ucsd.edu/ - Choose "Proposal Preparation", then choose "Salary Rates and Charts".

Animal Subjects: http://medicine.ucsd.edu/asp/

Human Subjects: http://irb.ucsd.edu/

Lab Safety (radiation/biohazard): http://www-ehs.ucsd.edu/lab/labsafe.htm

REQUESTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Please let us know a minimum of a month before that you are planning to submit a grant.

The first things that we like to have are a title (please pick a title that you will not change) and budget amounts and personnel you want to include about two weeks before due date and a draft of the complete proposal ten days before. We usually do not need the final science until a day before it needs to be mailed to the agency.

When receiving information about awards from private agencies, please bring all the original letters, checks, signature requests, etc., to your Biology Contract & Grant staff person so that we may see that it is processed through the proper channels. By doing this, you guarantee that the money will be allocated to you promptly and your accountant can then notify you of fund numbers, etc.

We highly recommend that you sign up with the "Community of Science Database" at http://www.cos.com/