RMS Downtime – TONIGHT, Sept. 4th from 5PM – 10PM

RMS Downtime – TONIGHT, Sept. 4th from 5PM – 10PM

Dear RMS Users, RMS will be unavailable tonight, Friday, Sept. 4th from 5PM thru 10PM for system maintenance. No RMS jobs will run in this time frame. Please contact the IACUC Team (iacuc@uci.edu) if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you, The ERA Team Need Help? Open a ticket – ERA Support Desk (New!)…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Follow COGR on LinkedIn 9/4/26Inside Higher Ed OMB Grants Rule Delayed Until Mid-December President Trump  signed legislation this week that will fund the government through Dec. 11 and delay  a proposed rule that would give political appointees more power over grant making.  AIP, COGR Director Krystal Toups quotedSee also Congress Delays OMB Grantmaking Rule with Stopgap…

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NCURA Webinars

NCURA Webinars

Dear Colleagues: The Office of Research is providing the campus community with free access to the following upcoming live virtual NCURA webinars. To register, please use the corresponding unique registration links listed below. Please do not share these links with anyone outside the UC Irvine community. You must register using your “uci.edu” email address, or…

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Stopping chronic pain before it starts

Researchers discovered that after an injury, support cells are temporarily rewired to trigger nerve cells to produce sticky beta-amyloid protein fragments best known for their role in Alzheimer’s disease. In mice, blocking this process shortly after injury prevented pain from becoming persistent without dulling the initial, acute pain response. The findings, published in Science Translational…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Follow COGR on LinkedIn 9/1/26New York Times House Clears Bill to Avert an Election-Season Shutdown The House overwhelmingly passed a stopgap bill on Tuesday to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month, sending it to President Trump’s desk and punting a spending fight until after the midterm elections. The HillSee also Congress…

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NIH Policy Update: Definition of Clinical Trial

NIH Policy Update:  Definition of Clinical Trial

OR Generic Template An archived version of this message may be found at news.research.uci.edu Human Research Protections NIH Policy Update:  Definition of Clinical Trial The National Intitutues of Health (NIH) has recently revised requirements under the NIH Clinical Trial Definition. Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) will not have to follow the requirements for clinical trials,…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed Update: COGR News Digest

8/31/26The Washington Post With shutdown looming, House leaders aim to quickly pass funding bill House lawmakers are poised to vote this week on a Senate-passed measure to fund U.S. agencies through Dec. 11, avoiding a federal shutdown before the midterms. 8/31/26Inside Higher Ed The NIH Director Says a Lot. Critics Call Much of It Misleading.…

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Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Fed Update: COGR News Digest

Follow COGR on LinkedIn Inside Higher Ed 8/27/26 DOD Demands 30 American Universities Audit Foreign Partnerships The Department of Defense has directed a group of 30 research-focused universities to conduct an “immediate and comprehensive” audit of their partnerships with foreign institutions that it says could be a threat to national security. Each university has until…

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