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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
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/12/18/crystallography-gets-support-from-united-nations-nigms/

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
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/12/05/nigms-support-of-career-development-k-awards/

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
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/12/03/how-to-use-reporter-when-preparing-new-grant-applications/

Web Chat Stimulates Student Interest in Cells, Research Careers

Friday, Nov 9, 2012 3:40 PM EST by Jennifer Villani | 0 Comments

Last Friday, we hosted Cell Day–an extremely exciting online interactive chat about the cell. During the event, many members of our scientific staff, including our Acting Director, Judith Greenberg, fielded more than 140 questions from mostly 5th through 12th grade students and teachers across the country. We anticipated some of the questions we’d be asked, [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events, Resources
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/11/09/web-chat-stimulates-student-interest-in-cells-research-careers/

Discussing Your Application’s Review with Your Program Director

Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 9:40 AM EST by Joe Gindhart | 2 Comments

Study sections review applications three times a year, about halfway between the submission date and the second level of review by an advisory council. We are currently in the midst of the review cycle for the January 2013 Council meeting, which means that applicants will be getting their summary statements soon. A recent post described [...]

Filed under: Peer Review, Resources
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/10/23/discussing-your-applications-review-with-your-program-director/

Outsourcing Lab Procedures: Results from Request for Information

Friday, Oct 12, 2012 10:53 AM EST by Stefan Maas | 0 Comments

I previously described our effort to solicit feedback from investigators on their needs and ideas for outsourcing laboratory procedures. Now I’d like to share a summary of the overall results and some observations based on the 35 responses we received (mostly from academia): Related News Articles* An eBay for Science , Nature Online Marketplace Helps [...]

Filed under: NIH, Resources
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/10/12/outsourcing-lab-procedures-results-from-request-for-information/

Anniversary Event “Cell”ebrates the Cell

Monday, Oct 1, 2012 12:10 PM EST by Jennifer Villani | 0 Comments

To help increase student interest in cell biology and research careers—as well as to mark our 50th anniversary—we’re hosting an online interactive chat about the cell on Friday, November 2. Middle and high school students, teachers and interested members of the public can submit questions to be answered by NIGMS scientific staff from 10:00 a.m. [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events, Resources
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/10/01/anniversary-event-cellebrates-the-cell/

FAQs on Application Review, Next Steps

Thursday, Sep 27, 2012 3:52 PM EST by Paul Sheehy | 0 Comments

To address questions that investigators frequently ask about the review of their applications and the next steps after review, NIH recently created an online resource, titled Next Steps. It has also added a link to this new Web site on summary statements, just below the impact score and percentile. Questions include: What does the score [...]

Filed under: Peer Review, Resources
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/09/27/faqs-on-application-review-next-steps/

A Roadmap for Glycoscience

Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 9:57 AM EST by Pamela Marino | 0 Comments

The National Research Council of the National Academies has released a report titled Transforming Glycoscience: A Roadmap for the Future . The report was sponsored by several NIH institutes, including NIGMS, along with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. It was prepared by the Committee on Assessing [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events, News, Resources
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/09/04/a-roadmap-for-glycoscience/

Biomedical Technology Resources for the Research Community

Friday, May 11, 2012 12:01 PM EST by Amy Swain | 0 Comments

Roughly two-thirds of the biomedical technology research and development programs formerly in the National Center for Research Resources are now part of NIGMS. Housed in the Biomedical Technology Branch of our Division of Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, the programs meet the needs of biomedical researchers by supporting cutting-edge research and development activities through [...]

Filed under: Collaborative Research, Resources
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/05/11/biomedical-technology-resources-for-the-research-community/

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