Archive for December 2010


Cell Biology Celebration

Tuesday, Dec 21, 2010 11:10 AM EST by Joe Gindhart | 1 Comments

Cell biologists, including many of our funded investigators and a few of us from NIGMS, were in a celebratory mood as the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology kicked off December 11 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. The keynote symposium began with Gary Borisy’s description of the first ASCB meeting, when [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events
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Important Application Reminders for January Submissions

Thursday, Dec 9, 2010 8:57 AM EST by Paul Sheehy | 0 Comments

NIH has issued a notice with important reminders affecting grant applications submitted on or after January 25. The NIH policy on page limits means that reviewers need not consider text or materials that have been inappropriately placed in the Appendix or other sections without page limits, particularly when they circumvent page limitations for the Specific [...]

Filed under: Research Administration
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Stepping Down as NIGMS Director

Monday, Dec 6, 2010 9:36 AM EST by Jeremy Berg | 18 Comments

This morning, I announced that I will step down as NIGMS Director at the end of June 2011. I had no intention of leaving NIGMS at this point, but am doing so in support of the career of my wife, Wendie, a leading breast imaging clinical researcher. After a change in her situation in May, [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, News
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