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gregory.mccarthy
BIAC Alum
USA
26 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 11 2003 : 11:19:16 AM
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The scientific review committee at BIAC assigns a specified number of hours of scheduling authority for each approved protocol. In most instances, this number of hours matches the number of hours requested by the investigator. Once these hours have been exhausted, it is no longer possible to schedule additional scanning sessions using the web-based calendar. This has been the cause of several recent frantic phone calls to the BIAC office.
Investigators (and their authorized research team members) can keep track of the number of scheduling hours remaining on their protocols by clicking on the Experimental Info Page link in the upper left corner of the BIAC Scanner Schedule page. If the number of hours of scheduling authority is less than that required to complete the study, the PI of the protocol can petition the chair of the scientific review committee (Dr. Jim Voyvodic) for additional hours, and this petition will be handled in an expedited manner. Such petitions are preferentially communicated through email (jim.voyvodic@duke.edu) to ensure that a paper trail is maintained.
Requests for additional hours of scheduling authority for approved and grant-funded protocols are normally approved. However, requests for additional hours for protocols that are unfunded and which use BIAC development time (i.e., ‘pilot studies’) may require documentation that the hours already approved and expended were used productively.
- Gregory McCarthy
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Requesting additional hours for a protocol
