Archive for January 2013


Improving Homology Modeling

Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:54 AM EST by Ward Smith | 0 Comments

While the Protein Data Bank includes nearly 88,000 protein structures that were determined experimentally, there are millions more proteins whose structures are unknown. Comparative or homology modeling offers a powerful approach for leveraging solved structures to reveal important biological details about the others. Two efforts, both funded through the Protein Structure Initiative, are evaluating the [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities, Meetings/Events, Structural Biology
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Progress Report on the NIGMS Strategic Plan

Friday, Jan 25, 2013 10:51 AM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

In 2008, NIGMS issued a strategic plan, Investing in Discovery, that was intended to provide guidance for the Institute over the next 5 years. How well have we done in addressing the plan’s strategic goals? After a critical self-examination, we have produced a progress report that describes some of our accomplishments, strategic decisions and outcomes. [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages
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Advisory Council Meeting

Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 3:12 PM EST by Emily Carlson | 0 Comments

The next meeting of our Advisory Council is later this week. For more information on Council activities, see these previous Feedback Loop posts: The Advisory Council’s Critical Roles, an overview of the types of input Council members provide to NIGMS “Did Council Fund My Grant?”, a discussion of the Advisory Council’s role in making funding [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events, Peer Review
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Macromolecular Interactions in Cells, Biomedical Workforce Diversity and Training

Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 1:51 PM EST by Jilliene Mitchell Drayton | 0 Comments

You may be interested in these recent funding opportunity announcements: Revisions for Macromolecular Interactions in Cells (R01) (RFA-GM-14-003) Purpose: Extend the scientific scope or enhance research capabilities of active NIGMS-funded R01 or R37 projects specializing in the analysis of molecular systems and mechanisms in live organelles, cells, tissues or organisms Letter of intent due dates: [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities
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JIT Information: How We Use “Other Support” Data

Friday, Jan 4, 2013 8:20 AM EST by Joe Gindhart | 1 Comments

The study section gave your application a competitive score, and now you’ve been asked to submit Just-in-Time (JIT) information about your other sources of funding, including active and pending support for key personnel on the application. Why do we request this information? First, for all applications that might be funded, we check the JIT information [...]

Filed under: Research Administration
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