The UW has purchased a Web-based Grants.gov system called Cayuse424 that is MUCH easier to use than the PureEdge tools. In the near term it can be used for NIH Grants.gov proposals, with other federal agencies being added quickly. We are in the process of implementing Cayuse now, and plan to have the full Web system available to you by the middle of December. This is to give you plenty of time to prepare your NIH R01 applications for the February 5 deadline. However, Cayuse has two parts: a set of templates that simplify the creation of your research plan and BioSketch, and the Web tools to prepare the full proposal. We will be able to release the template tools to you this month so you can begin working with them for the NIH deadline.
There are some things you can do now to get ready, and to help us get ready as well:
1) If you plan to have collaborators (subawardees), please let us know now who they are so we can load them into the Cayuse system before you need to add them to the submission system itself. Send info about them to barrett@rsp.wisc.edu. This will save you a lot of time later on.
2) If you do not have a UW-Madison NetID and password, get that now (at https://www.mynetid.wisc.edu/activate). You'll need this to log on to the Cayuse web tools. Also, make sure your name, office address, office phone, and email address are correct in the campus directory. (Check at http://www.wisc.edu/wiscinfo/directories/.) This information will load automatically into the Cayuse system.
3) If you do not have an NIH Commons ID, get it now. You will need it to submit for the Feb. 5 deadline.
4) Be aware that, while we are not imposing internal deadlines, NIH is expecting 20,000 applications and it is certain that Grants.gov and NIH will bog down in the days prior to the deadline. RSP will do everything we can to submit on time, but we can't guarantee that the sponsor will be able to receive it in time because of limited bandwidth. If it is possible to get your application to us 7-10 days ahead of time, consider doing so to be on the safe side.
Watch this site for more information and for up-coming informational sessions.
