Companies such as Click Commerce, InfoEd, and COEUS have developed customized systems for each institution that can include IRB approval applications for clinical trials and approval for testing and research with animals.
A seamless system: Instead of a Web-based program, these products are integrated into the institution's server. Researchers log on to their university's Web site and submit their grants by uploading to that server. Unlike Cayuse, this provides continuity to the entire grant application process: Researchers apply for a grant and if it's awarded, that award information can be routed to various departments of the institution, including the accounting department.
Just the science: This product is meant to make the grants administration staff's job easier by putting all grant and accounting information in one place. But it is also an advantage for researchers. "The only thing the researchers enter into the application is the science," says Katherine Milem, vice ...
