Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA)

The Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) Office, also known as the Grants Office for the NYU School of Medicine/Langone Medical Center, is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the education, service, and research programs of the NYU School of Medicine.

We assure compliance with university, medical school, sponsor and government policies and procedures. In fulfilling this mission, our staff provides services in a responsive, positive and professional manner.

SPA Services:

• Review and provide institutional endorsement for sponsored project proposals.
• Work to ensure that the School of Medicine is fully compliant with sponsor terms and conditions, School of Medicine policies, and all sponsor regulations and requirements.
• Review, approve and facilitate the School of Medicine’s post-award actions that require sponsor approval such as a change in the principal investigator, revisions to budgeting, submissions of progress reports, no-cost extensions and other notifications.
• Review, interpret and disseminate policies from Federal sponsoring agencies and other external sponsors. 
• Negotiate and accept sponsored awards in the form of grants, contracts and cooperative agreements and issuing sub-awards on behalf of the School of Medicine.
• Establish accounts for sponsored projects in the financial system.
• Provide personal assistance with proposals including budget development and sponsor compliance review.
• Provide state-of-the-art access to funding information via internet including deadlines, guidelines, policy updates and links to the NIH, NSF, DoD and other federal and non-federal sponsors.
• Conduct workshops to enhance grant writing skills.

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