Archive for July 2009


Recovery Act Status

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/

New Opportunities to Solve and Study Protein Structures

Whether you’re interested in a single protein or many, you now have the chance to join the Protein Structure Initiative’s PSI:Biology network, which will apply high-throughput structural approaches to solve interesting biological problems. We have just released three funding opportunities that will establish the core of the PSI:Biology research network: Centers for High-Throughput Structure Determination – [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities, Structural Biology
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/07/31/new-opportunities-to-solve-and-study-protein-structures/

What’s Your Recovery Act Story?

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
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/07/30/whats-your-recovery-act-story/

Moving Forward with Stem Cell Research

New NIH guidelines for human stem cell research became effective on July 7, 2009. We thank those of you who provided comments on the draft policy. The input NIH received was instrumental in developing the final guidelines, which will generate a new registry of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) eligible for use in NIH-funded projects. [...]

Filed under: News, Stem Cells
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/07/21/moving-forward-with-stem-cell-research/

“Join Us on the Edge of Discovery”

We’ve posted a new job listing (link no longer available) for a position in the NIGMS Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics. This position is for the Chief of the Structural Biology and Proteomics Technology Branch. This person will oversee the scientific and administrative management of the branch, which supports research using genomics or computational [...]

Filed under: Job Announcements
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/07/21/join-us-on-the-edge-of-discovery/

The Blossoming of Systems Biology

Earlier this week, I attended the annual meeting of our National Centers for Systems Biology, which was held at NIH. This was the 5th meeting since the program started in 2002, and one of its goals was to introduce NIH research staff and administrators to the exciting developments and applications of systems biology as well [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/07/17/the-blossoming-of-systems-biology/

A Diverse Recovery Act “Portfolio”

We know you’re eagerly awaiting Recovery Act funding decisions and curious about how we plan to distribute these funds. Although we still don’t have all the information we need to make firm allocations, I can provide the following snapshot of what we’re currently projecting. About three-quarters of NIH’s Recovery Act appropriation was distributed to the [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, Recovery Act
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2009/07/01/a-diverse-recovery-act-portfolio/