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Dry eye is a chronic medical condition that develops when the eye's tear film does not lubricate and protect the eye's outer surface.
RPB’s Year-End Reporting is required for all active departmental and individual grantees (meaning that the grant is still active and has not been expended). Your department will receive information about reports that are required via email each fall. No Cost Extension (NCE) grants and awards are considered still active until these grants are formally terminated.
There are three types of Year-End reports that are required (as detailed in the bullets below). Report requirements and deadlines are communicated for all three report types by the end of September. These reports are filed using RPB’s Online Reporting System, for which each department has one appointed administrator.
Please note: there is only one set of login details per department; if anyone other than the appointed administrator needs to access the account, the administrator must share the department’s account details with that person. RPB requests updated information about each department’s account administrator every Summer.
If you have questions about who the platform administrator is for your department, please email MariaClaudia Lora-Montano at mlora@rpbusa.org.
These are summaries of the research that has been conducted in the prior calendar year. These summaries are typically due in November. The contact for these summaries is Jo Casella (jcasella@rpbusa.org).
This is an annual listing of any citations that were published in scientific journals, in which RPB is named as a funder of the research. Each department submits only one Bibliography per year. This report is typically due in January. The contact for these summaries is MariaClaudia Lora-Montano (mlora@rpbusa.org).
High-resolution, good quality photos of each active individual grantees or researchers in an RPB-supported department of ophthalmology are due each January. Details on photo requirements will be provided each Fall. The contact for these photos is Jo Casella (jcasella@rpbusa.org).
Each year, RPB requires a year-end financial report of all active grants and awards (including NCE). The financial reports are used to evaluate RPB’s investments in these departments and are essential for continued grant support.
Information and report templates will be shared by RPB (typically in December) and reports are typically due in February.
The contact for these financial reports is MariaClaudia Lora-Montano (mlora@rpbusa.org).
Some multi-year RPB individual grants require a substantive Mid-Term Progress Report. Progress Report requirements will be sent to a grantee prior to the mid-point of a multi-year award. The due date for these reports is variable, based on when the original award was made. Due dates will be made clear when the request for a Progress Report is made.
Each Progress Report will be reviewed by an external reviewer who is an esteemed expert in vision science. If the external reviewer deems that significant progress has been made and the award is on track, the second half of the grant funding will be authorized by RPB.
If the reviewer deems that there are problems with the research progress or the direction of the project, RPB will reach out to request more information and/or revision/resubmission. RPB reserves the right not to make subsequent grant payments if progress is not deemed adequate for continued funding.
For grantees, these reports are essential to achieving the second half of funding. For RPB, these reports are critical to ensure that RPB funds are being used properly and for the purpose for which they were intended in multi-year awards.
For questions about Mid-Term Progress Reports, contact MariaClaudia Lora-Montano (mlora@rpbusa.org).