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Most NIGMS Recovery Act Funds Now Committed

Monday, Mar 29, 2010 11:10 AM EST by Paul Sheehy | 0 Comments

At this point in Fiscal Year 2010, we have committed nearly all of our Recovery Act funds. If you have not yet heard about the status of a supplement request, it’s very unlikely that we’ll be able to fund it. As Jeremy Berg noted in an earlier post, we set a high priority on getting [...]

Filed under: Budget, Funding Opportunities, Recovery Act
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/03/29/most-nigms-recovery-act-funds-now-committed/

New NIH Director’s Initiative on Scientific Workforce Diversity

Friday, Mar 26, 2010 12:42 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

NIH recently announced the NIH Director’s Pathfinder Award to Promote Diversity in the Scientific Workforce, a new program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that NIGMS will manage. The program is designed to foster new ways of thinking about initiatives related to scientific workforce diversity. Awards will empower exceptionally creative scientists to develop highly [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, Funding Opportunities, Recovery Act, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/03/26/new-nih-directors-initiative-on-scientific-workforce-diversity/

Think Big with New $80 Million NIH Recovery Act Program

Thursday, Jan 7, 2010 12:06 PM EST by Peter Preusch | 0 Comments

A new Recovery Act funding announcement from the NIH Office of the Director came out last week, and it offers plenty of opportunities for the NIGMS community. If you plan to apply for the NIH Director’s Opportunity for Research in Five Thematic Areas (RC4), think big! Only projects with budgets of more than $500,000 in [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities, Recovery Act
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/01/07/think-big-with-new-80-million-nih-recovery-act-program/

Fiscal Year 2009 R01 Funding Outcomes

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 3:16 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

Fiscal Year 2009, which ended on September 30, was a time of unprecedented opportunities for NIH due to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As I noted previously, NIGMS used Recovery Act resources to support a variety of funding mechanisms. We have now analyzed the overall results for R01 grants using both our regular appropriation [...]

Filed under: Budget, Director’s Messages, Funding Trends, Recovery Act
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/12/10/fiscal-year-2009-r01-funding-outcomes/

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
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/10/14/recovery-act-summary-for-fiscal-year-2009-and-plans-for-fiscal-year-2010/

President Obama Visits NIH

Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 2:22 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

Yesterday, President Obama came to NIH to deliver a speech highlighting the role of scientific research in the Recovery Act and the potential impacts of biomedical research on health. This event marked the end of the fiscal year and the extraordinary effort of the scientific community and the NIH staff in moving forward with Recovery [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, Recovery Act
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/10/01/president-obama-visits-nih/

Nearly Half of NIGMS Recovery Act Funds Now Awarded

Friday, Sep 18, 2009 11:58 AM EST by Jeremy Berg | 12 Comments

Three weeks ago, I posted a graph of the cumulative investment of NIGMS Recovery Act funds as a function of the award start date. Below is an updated version. This graph differs from my previous one in two ways. First, it is up to date as of yesterday. Second, it includes commitments for the second year [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, Funding Trends, Recovery Act
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/09/18/nearly-half-of-nigms-recovery-act-funds-now-awarded/

Update on Awarding Recovery Act Funds

Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 9:35 AM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

As I noted in my previous post, we are actively working to make Recovery Act awards. Below is a plot of the cumulative investment of NIGMS Recovery Act funds as a function of the award start date. This includes awards made through the middle of August. As you can see, the rate at which we [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, Recovery Act
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/08/27/update-on-awarding-recovery-act-funds/

Recovery Act Status

Friday, Jul 31, 2009 4:56 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 1 Comments

Yesterday, we posted a request for stories on the impact of Recovery Act funding. Comments to this post revealed some areas of frustration and misunderstanding that I would like to address. First, I’d like to say that one of the big Recovery Act stories is the scientific community’s huge response with exciting ideas. Indeed, we’ve [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, Recovery Act
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/07/31/recovery-act-status/

What’s Your Recovery Act Story?

Thursday, Jul 30, 2009 2:17 PM EST by Ann Dieffenbach | 17 Comments

If you’ve gotten funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, you know how important it is to tell people in your community that this support is having an impact. We want to hear from you, too. Your stories can help us show the American public how the Recovery Act is working to accelerate research, [...]

Filed under: Recovery Act
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