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You may be interested in the following recently issued funding opportunity announcements: Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Admin Supp) (PA-12-100) Purpose: Request supplemental funds to existing research grants to meet increased costs that are within the scope of the approved award, but that were unforeseen when the new or renewal [...]
Filed under: Funding Opportunities
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/02/23/funding-opportunities-administrative-supplements-chemical-probe-discovery/
To further streamline the submission process, NIH has launched a pilot for electronically submitting administrative supplement applications (Type 3s), and it plans to begin pilots for research performance progress reports (Type 5s) and change of institution requests (Type 7s) soon. During the Type 3 and Type 7 pilots, grantees have the option to continue using [...]
Filed under: Research Administration
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/02/21/electronic-submission-pilots-for-three-common-applications/
As we told you in an earlier post, NIGMS turns 50 this year. One of the ways we’re marking this milestone is by sponsoring speakers or symposia at a number of scientific society meetings. We’ve already been to the Society for Glycobiology and the American Society for Cell Biology meetings, and in the coming months, [...]
Filed under: Meetings/Events, News
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/02/09/nigms-50th-anniversary-sessions-at-scientific-society-meetings/
One of the most common questions that applicants ask after a review is why the overall impact score is not the average of the individual review criterion scores. I’ll try to explain the reasons in this post. What is the purpose of criterion scores? Criterion scores assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of an application [...]
Filed under: Peer Review
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/02/07/why-overall-impact-scores-are-not-the-average-of-criterion-scores/
You may be interested in the following funding opportunity announcements and NIH requests for information: Funding Opportunity Announcements Modeling Social Behavior (R01) Competing Revisions for Macromolecular Interactions in Cells (R01) Jointly Sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences (T32) PHS 2012-02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC, [...]
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Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/02/07/funding-opportunities-requests-for-information-issued/
Of all the institutes and centers at NIH, NIGMS receives the most Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA, R15) applications and funds the most AREA grants. This is probably because the faculty and students at eligible institutions, which have not been major recipients of NIH research grant funds, typically focus on basic research using model organisms [...]
Filed under: Funding Opportunities, Peer Review, Research Administration
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/02/02/addressing-additional-review-criteria-questions-for-area-applications/
