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6 Nov 2020: The way the Wellcome Trust funds its research is changing to support its new vision and strategy. Their new vision is to support science to solve three worldwide health challenges: infectious diseases, global heating and mental health.

20 Nov 2020: X5 - the costing and pricing tool for research projects is due to be upgraded on Tuesday 24th November 2020. The upgrade will include improvements to the interface, fixes to known bugs and enable us to remain supported by the supplier. A summary of

18 Dec 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 261. Published on 18 December 2020. An Organisational Spend Report (OSR) is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO)

11 Sep 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 254. Published on 11 September 2020. This is a reminder that as per the Terms & Conditions of Horizon 2020, reporting staff costs to the EC requires that only the

7 May 2020: The equipment database was developed in 2012 as a response to changes by RCUK to the way that equipment on research grants would be funded and in particular increase shared usage. When the call came to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the database

24 Jan 2020: The School of Biological Sciences is hosting a visit by Prof Melanie Welham, BBSRC Executive Chair and will include an Open Meeting chaired by Prof Anna Philpott, Head of School of Biological Sciences. Tuesday 18th February 11:00 – 13:00 Sainsbury

11 Sep 2020: This month, the Wellcome Trust is changing its digital identity from 'wellcome.ac.uk' to 'wellcome.org'. Emails will come from the .org address and from Monday 14 September the website domain will switch. The .ac.uk domain will continue running for

25 Sep 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 255. Published on 25 September 2020. Following this UKRI announcement, updated Terms and Conditions requiring organisations to be compliant with the new UKRI

24 Apr 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 244. Published on 24 April 2020. We would like to remind you that from Monday 27th April there will be some changes to the way in which grant applications will be

10 Jan 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 236. Published on 10 January 2020. The Royal Society Grants Team is visiting the University of Cambridge on 28th January 2020. Their talk is open to everyone and

24 Jan 2020: The revised GPS was published last month and replaces the October 2018 version as a standard term and condition of awards. This revision applies to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after 1st October 2019.

19 Jun 2020: The Cambridge-Africa programme is pleased to announce that the call for proposals to the ALBORADA Research Fund, is now open. Applications are invited from pairs of researchers (post-doctoral level and above) from the University of Cambridge or an

17 Jul 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 250. Published on 17 July 2020. The application process for UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) COVID-19 open call will change on 31st July 2020. After this date,

18 Dec 2020: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 5pm on Wednesday 23rd December 2020 and will re-open on Monday 4th January 2021. Therefore please be aware of the following deadlines and let your researchers know of

31 Jul 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 251. Published on 31 July 2020. As research funders continue to review their guidance for grant holders and applicants, the Research Operations Office has updated

6 Feb 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 238. Published on 6 February 2020. Please be advised that X5 has been updated with the new fEC rates for 2020. The revised fEC rates are available on the PRAO

19 Jun 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 248. Published on 19 June 2020. The EU team are organising a series of information events for the ERC advanced grant call 2020. The deadline for this call is 26.

7 May 2020: The Research Operations Office continue to update our webpage with the latest information about our major funders.

7 May 2020: Any researchers undertaking COVID-19 health related work that involves, participants – healthy volunteers or otherwise, their data or samples, should contact the Clinical School Research Governance Office for guidance about ethics approvals that

4 Dec 2020: On Thursday 10th December, the updated NHS and new Cost Of Living Allowance date of Aug 20 will be imported into X5. This means that X5 will be unavailable between 7am and 8:30am. Once the new rates are in X5, to apply them to existing costings, go