Our Team
Jon Evans, MS, MBA
- Senior Director of Research Administration, Associate Vice Chair, Research Finance and Administration
Pre-Award Team
The pre-award team supports faculty with:
- Identification of funding opportunities
- Grant submissions and initiations of clinical trials
- Budget and proposal development
- Just in Time (JIT) submissions (NIH)
- Negotiation and execution of research/clinical trials agreements
- Project account set up and chartstring
- Set up of subawards
- Research progress reports (RPPRs), IP/patent reports
- Award modifications/amendments; Subaward modifications/amendments
- Continuations (competitive and noncompeting)
- No cost extensions
- Rebudget approvals
- Award transfers
- Close out technical/final invention reports
- Effort reporting
- Education on pre-award processes, grant/clinical trial submission procedures, and research related policies and regulations
Post-Award Team
Research Administration works closely with the Department of Pediatrics post-award team, who support faculty with financial management of awards and trials:
- Allocation/processing salary distributions
- Cost transfers
- Project account monitoring/review of grant expenditures/reconciliations
- Quarterly attestations
- Subaward account monitoring
- Payment of subaward invoices
- Patient care invoicing
- Close out of awards and subawards
- Effort reporting
Clinical Research Support Team
The clinical research support team supports faculty with:
- Writing, review and approval of human subjects research protocols
- Identification of clinical trials participation opportunities
- Support with initiation and implementation of externally-sponsored clinical trials
- Quality Assurance Monitoring for Sponsor-Investigator Investigational New Drug (IND)/Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) trials and other high risk clinical trials
Fiona Sanders, MBA
- Manager for Clinical Research and Quality Assurance Monitor