Archive for December 2012


Metabolomics, Human DNA Sequence Variants Funding Opportunities

Friday, Dec 21, 2012 12:08 PM EST by Jilliene Mitchell Drayton | 0 Comments

You may be interested in the following funding opportunity announcements: Collaborative Activities to Promote Metabolomics Research (Admin Supp) (PA-13-041) Purpose: Request supplemental funds to current NIH-funded research projects for new interactive collaborations between basic or clinical researchers and metabolomics experts to pursue biomedical studies requiring a metabolomics approach Application due date: March 15, 2013 NCI [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities
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Crystallography Gets Support from United Nations, NIGMS

Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 1:49 PM EST by Ward Smith | 0 Comments

Laue X-ray diffraction pattern of a single crystal of a dimeric hemoglobin taken at the BioCARS structural biology research center. Credit: Vukica Srajer, BioCARS/University of Chicago, and William Royer, Jr., University of Massachusetts Medical School As NIH Director Francis Collins recently noted on his blog, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the first experiment [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities, NIH, Resources, Structural Biology
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NIGMS Support of Career Development (K) Awards

Wednesday, Dec 5, 2012 12:32 PM EST by Alison Cole | 0 Comments

NIH offers a wide variety of career development (K) awards, and NIGMS participates in a number of them. Here are answers to questions we often get about NIGMS support of these awards. Which career development awards (K awards) does NIGMS support? We support: Mentored Clinical Career Development Awards (K08, K23) in clinical research areas funded [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Funding Opportunities, Resources, Workforce Development and Diversity
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How to Use RePORTER When Preparing New Grant Applications

Monday, Dec 3, 2012 1:58 PM EST by James Onken | 1 Comments

NIH offers two tools that can help you search for projects similar to the one you’re thinking about. In this post, I’ll take you on a quick tour of the NIH RePORTER tool, a repository of information about NIH-funded research projects, and show you how to find information that may be useful to know before [...]

Filed under: Collaborative Research, Early Stage Investigator, Funding Opportunities, Resources
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