Archive for October 2009


Job Opportunity in Social and Behavioral Modeling

Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009 11:58 AM EST by Karin Remington | 0 Comments

We’re looking for a program officer (or “health scientist administrator”) to oversee grants and other activities related to social and behavior modeling—a research area that complements NIGMS-supported efforts to understand complex systems, including disease spread among human populations and dynamics in model organism communities. The job is within the NIGMS Center for Bioinformatics and Computational [...]

Filed under: Job Announcements
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Conference Marks Hispanic Heritage Month

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 2:05 PM EST by Hinda Zlotnik | 1 Comments

The annual Hispanic Heritage Month recognizes the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States and celebrates Hispanic heritage and culture. The end of this year’s observation coincided with the opening ceremony of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Conference , which is supported by NIGMS. The SACNAS [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/10/20/conference-marks-hispanic-heritage-month/

Deadline Approaching for Postdoc Workshop

Thursday, Oct 15, 2009 1:10 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

Last month, Jeremy Berg announced that NIGMS is holding a two-day workshop for postdoctoral fellows who will soon transition to their first independent positions. The event will take place on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD, March 11-12, 2010, and the deadline for applications is just a few weeks away (November 2). While we received [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Meetings/Events
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Recovery Act Summary for Fiscal Year 2009 and Plans for Fiscal Year 2010

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009 1:12 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

Fiscal Year 2009 is now complete. In addition to distributing the funds associated with the NIGMS regular appropriation of nearly $2 billion, we were able to commit $463 million in Recovery Act funds (out of the $505 million allocated to NIGMS and approximately $21 million more provided to us by the NIH Office of the [...]

Filed under: Budget, Director’s Messages, Recovery Act
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NIGMS Grantees Gather to Report on Stem Cell Research—Progress and Challenges

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009 12:40 PM EST by Marion Zatz | 0 Comments

Human embryonic stem cell research is an area of special interest to NIGMS. It represents a unique opportunity to explore the most fundamental mechanisms of biology and development while providing a foundation for future clinical applications. NIGMS’s support of basic research in embryonic stem cell biology is actually greater than that of any other component [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events, Stem Cells
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/10/14/nigms-grantees-gather-to-report-on-stem-cell-research-progress-and-challenges/

NIH Awards 14 Grants Examining Women’s Careers in Science

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009 12:09 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

It has been very gratifying to see outstanding female scientists appropriately recognized in the Nobel Prize announcements this month. However, a variety of evidence reveals that, in many fields of science and engineering, women’s careers progress along different trajectories than do men’s careers. As I noted in a previous post, NIGMS has led an initiative [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/10/14/nih-awards-14-grants-examining-womens-careers-in-science/

Major Application Changes Come in January

Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009 4:19 PM EST by Paul Sheehy | 1 Comments

Two major recommendations of the NIH Enhancing Peer Review Initiative were to shorten grant applications and restructure their content. These changes will affect applications due on or after January 25, 2010. Here’s a brief overview of the changes and their implementation. Be sure to follow the links for other details and important information. New Application [...]

Filed under: Peer Review, Research Administration
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/10/13/major-application-changes-come-in-january/

2009 Chemistry Nobel Prize Recognizes the Determination of the Ribosome’s Three-Dimensional Structure

Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009 4:04 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

We once again received wonderful Nobel news today. We were delighted to learn that three long-time NIGMS grantees–Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath–will share the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their “studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.” Remarkably, at the same 1987 “Evolution of Catalytic Function” Cold Spring Harbor meeting [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, News, Structural Biology
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/10/07/2009-chemistry-nobel-prize-recognizes-the-determination-of-the-ribosomes-three-dimensional-structure/

Remembering Ruth Kirschstein

Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009 3:59 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 7 Comments

We were all very sad to learn of the death of Ruth Kirschstein, M.D., last evening. She will be deeply missed here at NIGMS, NIH, and beyond. Dr. Kirschstein was an iconic figure at NIH and in the scientific community. She was the long-time director of NIGMS, serving from 1974 to 1993, and was the [...]

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Nobel Prize to Long-Time NIGMS Grantees

Monday, Oct 5, 2009 11:50 AM EST by Jeremy Berg | 1 Comments

We were delighted to learn this morning that long-time NIGMS grantees Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak will share the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their “discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.” I remember very well the presentation by then-graduate student Carol Greider at the [...]

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