Archive for February 2011


Milestone Grant Application

Friday, Feb 25, 2011 3:01 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

We just reached a milestone—our 100,000th grant application. Interestingly, it’s for a K99/R00 (Pathway to Independence) award. This program enables promising postdoctoral scientists to receive mentored—and later independent—research support. Given our strong commitment to research training, mentoring and workforce development, it’s somehow fitting that this application is for a program that addresses these needs. I [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages
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Budget Updates

Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011 3:43 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 1 Comments

An important step in the annual budget process is the release of the President’s budget request, which happened yesterday. The NIGMS slice is detailed in our FY 2012 budget justification, which includes a budget mechanism table, budget graphs, a Director’s overview and a justification narrative. The proposed budget for NIH calls for an increase of [...]

Filed under: Budget, Director’s Messages
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/02/15/budget-updates/

February 23 Teleconference on NIH Organizational Changes

Friday, Feb 11, 2011 2:04 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 1 Comments

The NIH Scientific Management Review Board will hold a teleconference on Wednesday, February 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. The discussion will focus on the NIH proposal to create a new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and its impact on other programs at NIH, including the National Center for Research [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, News, Resources
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Chemistry at NIGMS

Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011 10:23 AM EST by Mike Rogers | 0 Comments

The launch of the International Year of Chemistry 2011 is a good opportunity to reflect on the NIGMS role in supporting research in this central field of science. NIGMS is the leading institute at NIH in funding chemical research, supporting a range of studies focusing on such areas as the development of synthetic methodologies for [...]

Filed under: News
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Helping to Reverse America’s “Brain Drain”

Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011 4:04 PM EST by Shiva Singh | 0 Comments

A story titled “America’s Brain Drain ” that aired this past weekend on the CBS Sunday Morning show featured an interview with long-time NIGMS grantee Frank Bayliss of San Francisco State University (SFSU). It described how he is trying to nurture smart American students who are interested in pursuing science careers, in part through programs [...]

Filed under: News, Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
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