Collaborations / Networking / Helpful Links
- Harvard Catalyst: resources for Harvard cores, research profiles etc.
- Massachusetts General Post Doc Association: events schedule, career postings, funding resources, etc.
- Research Gate, online network for researchers
- Epernicus, online network for researchers
- Science Careers Magazine
Tools and Database Resources (Literature, Protocols)
- HIV molecular immunology database
- HIV drug resistance database
- Pubmed: literature resource
- Minireviews on various topics
- Searchable list of cytokines and CD molecules including references
- Collection of General Microbiology, Immunology Link List
- Forum and Protocols to basic experimental procedures
- Reagents related to HIV research
- Los Alamos HCV database
- List of CD molecules and different pathology related links
- HLA alleles
- Unit converter
- Links on Immunohistochemistry
- NIH AIDS Reagent Program
Educational Tools
Videos
NIH talks on cancer and infectious disease areas, many of which are immunologically focused.
Journal of Visual Experiments (JOVE), resource for learning new techniques and protocols outside your area of expertise)
Podcast
This Week in Virology podcast
Library Access
Treadwell Library (MGH)
Partners faculty and staff are allowed full access with Partners log in. http://library.massgeneral.org/
Countway Library (Harvard)
Countway offers different levels of privileges depending on affiliation and level. Here are the applicable levels for Partners/Ragon faculty and staff:
Affiliated Hospitals – Harvard Faculty
Affiliated Hospitals – Non-Faculty
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Real Time PCR Tutorial
Links for PCR primer design
PCR primers MGH core (USD 0.22 per base)
Tool to design PCR primers (MGH primerbank)
Genomics / Proteomics
- RCSB Protein data bank for X-Ray and NMR structures
- General page for proteomics resources: protein parameters calculator, sequence alignment, etc.
- Interactions of viral proteins with other proteins
- Interactions of HIV proteins
- Summary of findings from genetic association studies
Grant Submission Training
Computer Based Training Modules
15% Minimum Indirect Cost Rate Policy
Each year, Partners research institutions lose tens of millions of dollars of indirect cost recovery from sponsors who pay less than our government-negotiated indirect rates. A number of these sponsors (mostly foundations, public charity, or non-profit organizations) pay no indirect costs or pay an amount below the hospital gift/sundry IDC minimum of 15%. These unrecovered costs are real and substantial, and must be covered from general hospital operating margins that are increasingly being squeezed by the dramatic shifts in healthcare reimbursement. Labs that are funded primarily or exclusively with these no- or low-overhead awards are being subsidized both by the clinical operations of the hospital and by those research labs funded by awards that do pay full overhead.
Accordingly, effective October 1st 2016, we are instituting a new policy regarding acceptance of research awards that pay an IDC level below the hospital minimum of 15%. Specifically:
All research grant applications submitted to foundations, public charity, or non-profit institutions on or after October 1st 2016 must have an IDC rate of not less than 15%. If the award does not include funds sufficient to meet this requirement (because of a sponsor limitation to indirect cost reimbursement), then the PI and/or their department will be financially responsible for covering the shortfall with sundry funds that will be escrowed at the time the award is made. Investigators who wish to apply for grants paying below the 15% IDC minimum, who do not have sundry resources to cover the shortfall, must consult with their supervisors/mentors and/or units/departments before applying to ensure there is a fund identified to cover the IDC delta.
Training fellowships from foundations, public charity, and non-profit organizations are excluded from this minimum IDC requirement. Industry training fellowships are subject to the 15% minimum IDC recovery.
All grants currently funded below the 15% minimum, and those applied for before October 1st 2016 and subsequently awarded, are grandfathered and will not be subject to the new minimum requirement.
For additional information please refer to the F&A Cost Rate Policy.
NIH Funding Opportunities
NIH introduces upcoming changes to Biosketch and Other Support page requirements and format to support the need for the research community to provide full transparency and disclosure of all research activities, foreign and domestic. Details can be found at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-073.html. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Grant Administrator.
Travel Grants
MGH Center for Global Health Travel Award
In an effort to extend the Massachusetts General Hospital commitment to the health of our global neighbors, MGH Center for Global Health Travel Awards support the Mass General community to pursue research, training and clinical service opportunities worldwide.
Eligibility: All staff and faculty of MGH are eligible for travel awards.
Award Details: Up to $2,000 are available per travel award. Travel awards are solely to support domestic or international air travel. Travel must be procured via the Partners preferred travel vendors: Great GetAways Travel and Egencia. Unused award funds will be returned to the Travel Award.
Please review proposal requirements at CGH Travel Awards.
Poster Printing and Photo Development
The MGH Photography Department provides film processing, scanning and poster printing services. Go to “contact us” and send them an e-mail with your poster and the grant number to pay for it.