Topic: Award Management

Principal Investigator Eligibility Matrix

Some schools have published criteria for who may apply for funding programs based on their role at WashU. If the school is not listed, contact a department research administrator in that school to determine eligibility. Arts & Sciences McKelvey School of Engineering School of Medicine [DOC]

Individual Development Plans (IDP)

Office of Postdoctoral Affairs IDPs Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) Predoc Policy Created 09/2014 School of Arts & Sciences Graduate Education Recommendations Created 03/2014 Engineering Research Toolkit: NSF Mentoring Requirements for Proposals Office of Training Grants’ Examples of Individual Development Plans for RPPRs (WUSTL Key required)

Final Invention Statement (FIS) via eRA Commons Procedures

Created 01/2006Revised 07/2025 Purpose NIH requires the processing of three closeout documents when a grant ends: The Final Invention Statement (FIS) discloses any inventions that may have been created through the duration of the grant and whether they were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The statement should include all inventions […]

Carryover and Closeout Guidance

Carryover is handled in accordance with your Notice of Award (NOA) and can be automatic or require prior approval. Visit the Financial Services website for more information:

RMS: Research Management System

Conflict of Interest (COI), Proposal Development (PD), Proposal Tracking (PT), Award Tracking (AT), SPIN modules RMS System Support  Technical issues  Policy-driven questions Contact the Help Desk:314-935-5707 COI Module: Ask COI at 314-747-4181 or coi@wustl.edu PD/PT Modules: Contact your grant analyst or post in the RMS Teams Channel (within the Research Administrator Network Team). Supported Browsers […]