Progress Report Instructions for TRANSFORM Awards

1. The Annual Progress Report can be accessed using any browser.    

2. Complete the report for each project listed in your profile by selecting "Edit" under the "Project Report Status" column. 

3. Review and update the series of sixteen pages (Project, Personal, URM, Investigators, Positions, Progress,  Publications, Grants, Honors, FDA, Inventions, Activity Log, Satisfaction, Enrollment, Externship Report and xTrain) for each project. 

4. Note that if you submitted a progress narrative last year you will see an option in the right-hand corner to view your previous narrative. Please add this year’s narrative to the text box. 

5. For the Publications, Grants, FDA, and Inventions pages, please add any publications, grants, FDA drug, device, and biologic agent applications, and/or inventions that resulted from the pilot funding provided by the Irving Institute. Then, click the checkbox "This list is complete and correct" on each page to certify your changes. 

6. When the information on each page is updated and correct, be sure to click the “This information is up-to-date” or “This list is complete and correct” checkbox located on the left side of each page directly below the page navigation.  

7. Select “Return to progress report home” on the left side of the page. Your project should be listed as “Complete”. You can then select “Submit” to route your report to Irving Institute Administration. 

8. If your project is still listed as “Incomplete,” you must click the checkbox on all ten pages in order for your "Progress Report Status" to be marked complete. 

Any questions about the RPPR process can be directed to Harley Lynch, hal2140@cumc.columbia.edu.   

If you experience technical issues, please contact iisupport@columbia.edu.