{"id":80096,"date":"2020-03-18T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=80096"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:50:35","slug":"covid-19-update-on-research-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2020\/03\/18\/covid-19-update-on-research-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Update on Research Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please note the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established a website<\/a> to guide NIH funded researchers with deadlines for progress reports, grant submissions, regulatory issues and expenditures.<\/p>\n

In response to our message on March 14, many labs have implemented protocols for social distancing, minimized the numbers of individuals in their labs at any given time, and developed a Continuity of Operations Plan<\/a> (COOP) plan.<\/p>\n

Other best practices include:<\/p>\n

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  1. Determining a rotation of those who need to be in the lab (ideally 3 or fewer essential personnel).<\/li>\n
  2. Conducting web-based lab meetings.<\/li>\n
  3. Prioritizing long-term experiments and activities that would generate significant financial or data loss if not completed.<\/li>\n
  4. Maintaining critical samples and animal populations.<\/li>\n
  5. Delaying or ramping-down work that can be stopped.<\/li>\n
  6. Shifting lab members to activities (such as writing publications, grants and reports) that can be done remotely off-campus.<\/li>\n
  7. Updating contact information for lab members and for freezers and instruments that have alarm points.<\/li>\n
  8. Preparing for disruptions in deliveries and services, including access to core facilities.<\/li>\n
  9. Following lab safety guidelines<\/a> for extended times when no one is in the lab.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If someone in your lab develops symptoms consistent with Covid-19, please report to BU Occupational Health promptly for further directions. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) is finalizing labs and facilities guidelines for disinfecting spaces if a case is suspected in the lab.<\/p>\n

    Please contact me<\/a> if other lab-based issues arise. The goal is to keep our faculty, staff and students as safe as possible while continuing our research despite the circumstances.<\/p>\n

    For the latest University information regarding COVID-19, please see the BUMC<\/a> and BU<\/a> websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    NIH has established a website to guide NIH funded researchers with deadlines for progress reports, grant submissions, regulatory issues and expenditures. Learn more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[90],"tags":[253,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80096"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80109,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80096\/revisions\/80109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}