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Senior Personnel Documents

At UMass Amherst, PIs, Co-PIs, and other proposed senior personnel named in the grant proposals are responsible for preparing, maintaining, and compliance-checking their own “Senior Personnel Documents.” These documents include: 

  1. Biographical Sketches (biosketches) 

  1. Current and Pending Support forms 

  1. Collaborators and Other Affiliations table (NSF only) 

In addition, senior personnel are required to be registered with the sponsor to which they are applying for funding. Links to some of the common resources for these documents and registrations are given below. 

At UMass Amherst, PIs, Co-PIs, and other proposed senior personnel named in the grant proposals are responsible for preparing, maintaining, and compliance-checking their own “Senior Personnel Documents.” These documents include: 

  1. Biographical Sketches (biosketches) 
  2. Current and Pending Support forms 
  3. Collaborators and Other Affiliations table (NSF only) 

In addition, senior personnel are required to be registered with the sponsor to which they are applying for funding. Links to some of the common resources for these documents and registrations are given below. 

NIH Biosketch Update effective Jan 25, 2022

NIH Commons ID requirement effective Jan 2022

NSF Current & Pending Support Update 

NSF Collaborators & Other Affiliations Template

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