Research Resources: COVID-19 Pandemic

• FDA Guidance: Clinical Trials of Medical Products (May 14, 2020)
• Clinical Trials Research request forms, required for biomedical studies before IRB review 

• RAR instructions for COVID-19 Animal Ordering & Care
• Research Animal Resources (RAR) Epi/Pandemic Plan (March 30, 2020: Yellow)
• Frequently Asked Questions: COVID-19 and IACUC (May 19, 2020)

• Update from the IBC (March 25, 2020)

• Human Research: Latest IRB Guidance and FAQ (COVID-19) (January 6, 2021)
• Pre-Screening Research Participants for COVID-19 Risks/Symptoms (January 6, 2021)

Resources for University research facilities operating during COVID-19 pandemic:

• University Health & Safety: COVID-19 Workplace Safety Training and Resources includes:
    • Lab re-entry checklists
    • Safety training
    • Lab signage
    • Cleaning Work Areas Occupied by a Covid-19 Case Guidance Document

• Facilities Management Sunrise Support includes:
    • Building signage
    • Enhanced cleaning of spaces
    • Building traffic guidelines
  
  
• Hibernation of Research guidance under the initial stay-at-home order.

• Staged Resumption of Selected Research Operations (UMN Working Group Report, abridged): While not adopted as policy, this report provides useful advice for colleges and analogous units as the sunrise of our research operations proceeds. 

OVPR Sunrise Preparedness Plan

COGR members across the country—including UMN—are monitoring federal guidance and collecting FAQs and Resources on COVID-19 Impacts to Federal Awards.

You can view specific agency’s guidance on the COGR Institutional and Agency Responses to COVID-19 and Additional Resources website with these links (opens in a new tab/window):

OMB     NIH     NSF     DOD     DOE     DHHS     FDA     HRSA     SAMHSA    USAMRAA     NAVY     DOJ     CDC     NSA     NASA     DARPA     USDA     USAID     ONR     USDOT     EPA     NEH

• Charging PPE to Sponsored Projects (May 13, 2020)
• SPA Summer Salary Appointment Guidance (May 8, 2020)
• Federal Agency Covid-19 Salary Charging Rules-Inability to Work Remotely (April 2, 2020)
• Guidance for Charging Salaries and Managing Project Performance During COVID-19 (April 2, 2020)
• Federal Update & Opportunities (UMN/Lewis-Burke Associates) (July 31, 2020)
• Summary of UMN SPA Guidance COVID-19 (April 3, 2020)

Instructions for Creating COVID-Related Charges in Peoplesoft:

• Payroll-Related Expenses: COVID-19 Emergency Compensation: Funding Impacts for Payroll Related Expenses
• Non-Payroll Related Expenses/ CF2 Coding: Funding Guidelines - Cost Related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

• Frequently Asked Questions: COVID-19 and Technology Commercialization
• UMN-developed technologies to help in the fight against COVID-19

• Joint Letter to Congressional Leadership: sustain research and stimulus (April 7, 2020)
• Joint Letter to Congressional Leadership (March 19, 2020)
• Joint Letter to OMB (March 18, 2020)