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Payline Starts Low Until
We Get a Budget
Until NIAID gets its FY 2005
budget, the Institute is setting its R01 payline at
the 14.0 percentile.
We anticipate the payline will rise to the 18.0 percentile after Congress
passes the budget and foresee operating under a continuing
resolution for at least two months.
What to expect in FY 2005
Under the latest President's
Budget request, NIAID will receive 3.2 percent, or $137 million,
more than last fiscal year, while the FY 2005 NIH budget grows 2.6
percent or $727 million. Adding $14.5 million to NIAID's budget,
the president amended his original budget request to fund first-year
costs of a new extramural HIV
Vaccine Research and Development Center.
This effort stems from talks at the G-8 Summit in June, where the president
endorsed a Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, a virtual consortium to accelerate
HIV vaccine development. Conceptually, the new center will function similarly
to the existing NIAID Vaccine Research Center. However, it will exist
virtually in the U.S extramural community
-- it will not have a building -- and is expected to pursue a different
development strategy.
At this juncture, the full House and the Senate Appropriations Committee
have acted on our FY 2005 budget. The House approved funding amounts
identical to those in the president's amended request. In addition
to funding the new vaccine center, the House markup provides
for an average increase of 1.3 percent for research
project grants and keeps training stipends at
FY 2004 levels.
The Senate Appropriations Committee gives NIAID $16 million more than
the amended President's Budget does and includes the same $14.5
million for the new vaccine center. However, without adding additional
funding, the Senate markup raises our contribution to the Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria from $100 million to $149 million,
$49 million more than the level in the President's Budget.
Next, the full Senate will vote on its bill, and a House and Senate
conference committee will work out the differences between the markups
to create a bill for the president's signature. Since dates for these
actions have not been set, we begin FY 2005 under a continuing resolution
at least until after the November elections and possibly until after
Congress convenes in January.
While we're on the subject
Our site has more information about the budget process. In our All
About Grants tutorials, go to the Planning and Budget Cycle section
of Grant
Application Basics starting with NIAID
Budget and Planning. Also see our new FY
2005 Paylines and Budget page, and
check for updates when we get our new budget. |
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More Time for Applicants
in the Eye of the Storm
NIH again delays application deadlines, this time for applicants affected
by Hurricanes Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. You don't need to request permission
for more time, just give the reason in a cover letter. Your late days should
not exceed the time your institution was closed.
Read the official announcements
in the September
9, 2004, Guide, September
16, 2004, Guide, and September
28, 2004, Guide. |
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New Address for NIH Receipt
of Progress Reports
For noncompeting
awards (progress reports) due on or after October 1, NIH is centralizing receipt and
initial processing to move us all toward the goal of electronic research
administration. The new address is:
Division of Extramural Activities Support, OER
National Institutes of Health
6705 Rockledge Drive, Room 2207, MSC 7987
Bethesda, MD 20892-7987 (Use this ZIP code for the U.S. Postal Service, including express mail.)
Bethesda, MD 20817 (Use this ZIP code for commercial carriers such as FedEx and UPS.)
See the September
2, 2004, Guide notice for other details. |
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NIH Pauses Policy on Coded
Private Information or Specimens
NIH decided to delay implementing its planned new guidance on coded
private information and biological specimens beyond the January 10 receipt
date.
Read the September
17, 2004, Guide notice for more information. |
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Commons Gets a POP
Starting in October, you will be able to enter population data
for your progress report in the eRA Commons. When you use the electronic
streamlined noncompeting award process (eSNAP), your data will be transferred
to the Population Tracking Module where IC staff will review it.
The process will start right after award, when NIAID staff will enter
your population tracking protocol and
target data so you'll be able to enter data in eSNAP. NIAID staff will
use the new system to track your clinical
trial population data, enter data, monitor your project, approve
your submission, and perform other functions, depending on permission
level. Your institution must register with the Commons before you can
access eSNAP. |
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Apply Now to Have NIH Pay Your Student Loans
Doctoral-level professionals working in certain research fields can
get help repaying educational loans through the NIH Loan Repayment Programs
(LRP). NIH
can reimburse you up to $35,000 a year plus taxes. In return, you must agree
to conduct research for at least two years. LRP is accepting applications,
so be sure to get yours in by December 15, 2004.
For information on the programs, see the August 23, 2004, Guide notices
on the Extramural
Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program and the Extramural
Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers.
To find out more about all the programs or to complete an application,
go to the NIH LRP Web site. If
you have questions, call the LRP Help Line at 866/849-4047 or email LRP@nih.gov. |
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Visit NIH's Web Site on Sharing
Model Organisms
NIH created its Model
Organism Sharing Policy Web site to give you a central information
point for sharing model organisms.
The new sharing policy became effective
with the October 1, 2004, receipt date; see the September
10, 2004, NIH Guide notice for more information. |
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Following rDNA Guidelines
Is a Mandate, Not a Choice
If your organization has an NIH contract, grant, or current and pending support for
rDNA research, you must adhere to the NIH
Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules. Read more
in the September
14, 2004, NIH Guide notice.
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New People and Places
John McGowan, Ph.D., who has headed the Division of Extramural Activities
since 1991, has assumed a second role in NIAID's Office of the
Director as associate
director for
management and operations. As essentially an executive officer for the Institute,
he will oversee all process
and policy, which will flow through this key position.
In other news, we welcome NIAID's new special assistant for ethics and conflicts
of interest, Mr. Arthur Bennett, who joins us from Department of
the Interior, where he was acting director of its Ethics Office.
Ms. Julia Brown is now acting chief of the Office of Management and
New Initiatives in the NIAID Office of the Director. Before this move,
she was deputy chief administrative officer for the Extramural Administrative
Management Branch. |
Opportunities and Resources
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New on Funding -- Fresh Face, Friendly Features
You may have noticed the Funding site's new look, but did you find our
new features? Here's the low down on both:
- To make our initiative list
user-friendly, we've combined our former request
for applications, request
for proposals, and program
announcements lists into one handy listing, Funding Opportunities List.
- Our new side navigation links to the glossary, SOPs, Find It! list,
and other key grants and contracts sites from every page. When you
click on a major category, you get more links for that section, highlighted
by reverse shading for the subarea.
- We're launching a new Questions and Answers site for initiative-related peer
review and general topics.
- We're starting with NIAID-sponsored initiatives and will be expanding
the site into a new tool for applicants and grantees for navigating
and finding information.
- For review, we plan to post both standard and initiative-specific
Qs and As for all RFAs and NIAID-sponsored PAs. You can find the first
Qs and As by scrolling down the Funding Opportunities -- PAs, RFAs, RFPs, FOAs list -- look for the
 graphic.
- Dozens of tools -- forms, memos, and other things to do the job --
are now live, linked to the SOPs and on Find It!
- This move enables us to unlock many of the previously locked
tools and staff contacts. Thank you for bearing with us during
this transition. The SOPs should be much more useful with this
additional information.
- We've added a note to the top of SOPs that have roles for staff
only, so investigators will know when an SOP may be posted exclusively
for their information.
Needing to find a home for our Find It! list, SOPs, and Questions and
Answers -- and better access to the glossary -- we decided to rethink
our design. The new design also puts us in sync with NIAID's redesign,
which should be implemented in the next few months. As always, please
send your thoughts using our Feedback
form or by emailing Maya Hadar at mhadar@niaid.nih.gov. |
Advice Corner
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Reader Question on Supplementing NRSA Stipends
Photini Sinnis, M.D., assistant professor, Department of Parasitology,
New York University School of Medicine, asks:
"Since we are in New York City, the NIH training grant stipends
are often not enough money for my graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows to live on. Am I allowed to supplement their salaries with other
NIH grants such as my R01?"
Sorry, it's against regulations to supplement an NRSA stipend with funds
from an NIH grant. |
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