Are the budgets for the two clinical management trial protocols supposed to include personnel costs?
The protocol budgets in the Research Plan should only include personnel costs for staffing that may be specialized and unique to that protocol and are not covered by the Core budget or the Protocol Start-Up Cost and Staffing budget. Please note that the RFA indicates that personnel costs are covered by the Core budget (infrastructure costs for the principal investigators, co-investigators, administrative effort, and lead research coordinator time) and the Protocol Start-Up Cost and Staffing budget (designed to cover long-term research coordinator and data entry functions over and above the core that are required to start up AND implement multiple protocols over the project period). The maximum amounts specified in the RFA for Protocol Start-Up and staffing Costs could allow each center, for example one additional FTE coordinator in year 1 and two additional FTE coordinators in years 2 through 7.
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