Arana Shapiro
Arana Shapiro joined Games for Change in 2019 as the Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer where she oversees the day-to-day operations of the organization as well as providing strategic and programmatic support on all learning initiatives. Arana is the former Executive Director of Institute of Play, a NYC-based nonprofit organization that focused on transforming education through games and play. At IOP Arana led the Institute’s strategy, growth, development, and operations. She also oversaw the Institute’s major initiatives in relation to school design, leadership, and school-based partnerships. She has over twenty years of experience in education and nonprofit management, as a teacher, educational technologist, curriculum developer, and organizational leader. Arana was part of the founding team of school designers that opened the Institute of Play’s flagship project, NYC public School, Quest to Learn, and is co-author of Quest to Learn: Growing a S
Key Points
Notice reflects NIH’s continued concerns regarding foreign influence and imposes significant new compliance obligations on both grantees and individual researchers.
Obligates grantees to provide NIH with copies of researcher agreements with institutions located outside the U.S. and requires researchers to individually certify the accuracy of information provided to NIH.
Effective May 25, 2021, universities and research institutions will be required to use updated Biographical Sketch and Other Support forms in National Institutes of Health (NIH) applications and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPRRs). Please click here to read the entire notice. NIH explains that the intent of the changes is “to support the need for applicants and recipients to provide full transparency and disclosure of all research activities, foreign and domestic.” Although the updated forms are in some ways directionally consistent with NIH’s recent disclosure expectations and guidance
Key Points
Notice reflects NIH s continued concerns regarding foreign
influence and imposes significant new compliance obligations on
both grantees and individual researchers.
Obligates grantees to provide NIH with copies of researcher
agreements with institutions located outside the U.S. and requires
researchers to individually certify the accuracy of information
provided to NIH.
Effective May 25, 2021, universities and research institutions
will be required to use updated Biographical Sketch and Other
Support forms in National Institutes of Health (NIH) applications
and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPRRs). Please click here to read the entire notice. NIH explains
that the intent of the changes is to support the need for