Archive for September 2011


Funding Allocation for Research Project Grants in Fiscal Year 2012

Wednesday, Sep 28, 2011 10:58 AM EST by Judith Greenberg | 10 Comments

In this 200th Feedback Loop post, I’d like to share budget slides I presented earlier this month during the open session of our National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council meeting. The session also included updates on several of our initiatives as well concept clearances for two new ones, which are briefly described in the meeting [...]

Filed under: Budget, Concept Clearances, Director’s Messages, Funding Trends
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/28/funding-allocation-for-research-project-grants-in-fiscal-year-2012/

NIGMS-Related Funding Opportunities

Wednesday, Sep 28, 2011 9:09 AM EST by Emily Carlson | 1 Comments

You may be interested in the following funding opportunities that were recently published in the NIH Guide: NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards (R01) (RFA-RM-11-006) Purpose: Support exceptionally innovative, high-risk, unconventional research Letter of intent due date: December 12, 2011 Application due date: January 12, 2012 NIGMS contact: Laurie Tompkins, 301-594-0943 NIH contact: Ravi Basavappa, 301-435-7204 [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/28/nigms-related-funding-opportunities/

Collaborative Science Supplement Requests Due in January

Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 1:35 PM EST by Sue Haynes | 0 Comments

Do unexpected results from your NIGMS-funded R01 or R37 project have you thinking about your research in a different way, or is there a new approach that will greatly advance the aims of your studies? Will you need a collaborator with appropriate expertise to proceed? If you answered “yes” to these questions, you might consider [...]

Filed under: Collaborative Research, Funding Opportunities
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/27/collaborative-science-supplement-requests-due-in-january-2/

Systems Biology Center Offers Computational Course Materials

Monday, Sep 26, 2011 4:14 PM EST by Sarah Dunsmore | 2 Comments

In addition to their systems-level studies of complex biological phenomena, the NIGMS-supported National Centers for Systems Biology engage in a variety of training and outreach activities. One recent example is a curriculum for first-year graduate students created by the New York Center for Systems Biology. This material introduces computational principles and approaches that are becoming [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Resources, Training/Fellowships
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/26/systems-biology-center-offers-computational-course-materials/

Announcing Funding Opportunities and Research Administration News

Friday, Sep 16, 2011 11:14 AM EST by Emily Carlson | 0 Comments

We’re trying something new! To keep you posted on funding opportunities, we’ll provide a digest of NIGMS-related announcements soon after they appear in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, typically every 1 to 2 weeks. (You also can subscribe to get a weekly list of all NIH Guide announcements.) Similarly, we plan to post [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities, Research Administration
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/16/announcing-funding-opportunities-and-research-administration-news/

Lasker Award Highlights Protein Folding Discoveries

Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 3:04 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

The Lasker Awards recognize major contributions to understanding and treating, curing or preventing disease. The 2011 prizes were announced yesterday, and we’re proud that two former NIGMS grantees, Franz-Ulrich Hartl of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and Arthur L. Horwich of the Yale School of Medicine, are being honored with the Basic Medical Research [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, News
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/13/lasker-award-highlights-protein-folding-discoveries/

Apply for Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Program

Friday, Sep 9, 2011 10:59 AM EST by Irene Eckstrand | 1 Comments

The NIGMS program supporting research on the evolution of infectious diseases has merged with the ecology of infectious disease program that has been supported primarily by the National Science Foundation and NIH’s Fogarty International Center to create a new funding opportunity announcement. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) , also sponsored by the U.S. [...]

Filed under: Collaborative Research, Funding Opportunities
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/09/apply-for-ecology-and-evolution-of-infectious-diseases-program/

Nominate Outstanding Mentors for Presidential Awards

Wednesday, Sep 7, 2011 3:03 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

Mentoring is a core value at NIGMS, and we emphasize it in our training, career development and other programs. Among the mentoring activities we encourage in our Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training are the use of individual development plans and the adoption of evidence-based practices to grow trainees’ career skills. Another reflection [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/07/nominate-outstanding-mentors-for-presidential-awards/