Month: December 2021

Inventor Responsibility

Under the SMU Intellectual policy 10.16, “It is the responsibility of the inventor to notify the Associate Provost for Research or his or her designee in writing, including a disclosure of any discovery or invention involving probable patentable features resulting from research or invention under the inventor’s direction.” If you have a question about whether…Continue Reading Inventor Responsibility

Change in IRB Training Requirements

While the IRB is optimistic about the recent reduction in COVID-19 cases, requests to begin or resume in-person research interactions with human subjects must still be reviewed by the IRB on a case-by-case basis.  However, the IRB recently eliminated the requirement to complete two COVID-19 training courses (COVID-19: Back to Campus and Remote Contact Tracing)…Continue Reading Change in IRB Training Requirements

Unique Entity Identifier Transition beginning April 4, 2022

By April of 2022, the federal government will stop using the DUNS number to uniquely identify entities. At that point, entities doing business with the federal government will use a Unique Entity Identifier (SAM) created in SAM.gov. They will no longer have to go to a third-party website to obtain their identifier. This transition allows…Continue Reading Unique Entity Identifier Transition beginning April 4, 2022