Archive for October 2011


Marking Our Golden Anniversary

Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 2:53 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

More logos NIGMS turns 50 in 2012! To mark this important milestone, we’re planning a variety of activities throughout the year, including sessions at scientific society meetings and a symposium on the NIH campus on October 17, 2012. We’re also planning a special page on the NIGMS Web site where you can share your perspectives [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, News
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Emergence of Quantitative and Systems Pharmacology: A White Paper

Monday, Oct 24, 2011 11:37 AM EST by Mike Rogers | 5 Comments

Our interest in quantitative and systems pharmacology (QSP) began in 2007 as a question about why we were seeing so little integration between two fields we fund: systems biology and pharmacology. We recognized that connecting them could improve our understanding of drug action and speed drug discovery and development while also increasing our scientific understanding [...]

Filed under: Collaborative Research, Resources
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NIGMS Research Supplement Program to Promote Diversity Continues

Friday, Oct 21, 2011 2:15 PM EST by Marion Zatz | 4 Comments

As we begin the new fiscal year, I’ve received questions about whether NIGMS plans to continue its diversity supplement program. The answer is a definite yes. We remain committed to this program, which addresses the important goal of increasing the diversity of the biomedical and behavioral workforce by providing supplemental support for research experiences and [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities, Workforce Development and Diversity
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Chris A. Kaiser Selected as NIGMS Director

Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011 11:08 AM EST by Judith Greenberg | 4 Comments

NIH Director Francis Collins today announced his selection of Chris A. Kaiser as the new director of NIGMS. Dr. Kaiser expects to begin his appointment here in the spring of 2012. We are delighted by this news, and we appreciate the efforts of the NIH search committee in identifying and vetting candidates for the position. [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, News
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Continuing Resolution and Noncompeting Research Grant Award Levels

Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 2:33 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 5 Comments

A continuing resolution enacted on October 4, 2011, extends NIH’s operations through November 18, 2011, at the Fiscal Year 2011 level minus 1.5%. During this period, NIH will make noncompeting research grant awards at reduced levels, typically up to 90% of the previously committed level. This approach is consistent with our practice during continuing resolutions [...]

Filed under: Budget, Director’s Messages
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Expression Plasmids and Empty Vectors Available

Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 1:49 PM EST by Jean Chin | 0 Comments

Great news for biochemists, biologists and structural biologists—more than 50,000 protein expression plasmids and almost 100 empty vectors are now available through the PSI:Biology-Materials Repository . This includes about 900 membrane protein plasmids, and we expect this number—plus that for human proteins—to grow in the coming months. The repository has carefully collected, maintained and annotated these [...]

Filed under: Resources, Structural Biology
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NIGMS-Related Funding Opportunities

Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 3:27 PM EST by Emily Carlson | 0 Comments

You may be interested in the following funding opportunities that were recently published in the NIH Guide: Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing (R01) (PAR-12-001) Purpose: Use computational tools and biological and behavioral application drivers of the funded National Centers for Biomedical Computing as a foundation for building a biomedical computing environment Application due [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities
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Nobel Prize and Other Honors

Monday, Oct 3, 2011 12:49 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

We are pleased that Bruce Beutler, who has been an NIGMS grantee since 2000, is a recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine . He was cited for “discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity.” We congratulate him on this great honor. Beutler has been at the Scripps Research Institute since 2000 but [...]

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