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In the Wake of Katrina
We hope all our readers are safe and sound following the horror wreaked by Hurricane Katrina. At NIH, we're helping people whose lives have been ravaged and, of course, doing all we can for our community.
Help for investigators
If you're an NIH-supported investigator affected by Katrina, NIH will work with you to help you continue your research.
For example, we could help you relocate your project to another organization while yours rebuilds. Some grantees in surrounding states have generously offered to host students, postdocs, and researchers.
NIH is implementing a range of actions. As soon as investigators
and institutions can assess the damage, we will consider requests
for administrative supplements to extend
grants and replace equipment and other resources.
If you are affected, the first step is to contact your program and grants management officers to discuss your situation.
Locate NIAID staff at Contact Staff for Help.
Your contacts are also listed on your Notice of Award. Investigators
from New Orleans can use an NIH search to find program
and grants officers.
Go to Active
Grant Search and follow the instructions on the page.
NIH has put a lot of information online for investigators, including FAQs
for Grantees, Grants, and Applications Affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Find the FAQs and other resources on the NIH
Response to Hurricane Katrina Disaster Information for Investigators
and Institutions page.
Visit often as new items appear almost daily.
You can also find
or offer help at Academic
Medicine Responds to Hurricane Katrina from the Association
of American Medical Colleges.
Reprieve for applicants includes volunteers
If your workplace is shut down or you are helping out in the stricken zone, you can send your grant application late by simply stating the reason in your cover letter.
You don't need permission to make this request, but if directly
affected, take care that you do not exceed
the time your institution is closed.
NIH published this policy in the August
29, 2005, Guide notice, and extended it on September
9, 2005, to applicants helping in the relief effort.
Volunteers can submit a late application corresponding to
the time they are involved. However,
because of the impending review meetings, NIH must receive
applications due October 1 by October 25, and those due November
1 by November
25.
Doing our part for victims
NIH is mobilizing resources to triage and provide emergency care in areas where our staff has special expertise.
Working with the Association of American Medical Colleges, NIH created a national hotline and referral center that gives physicians access to round-the-clock expertise in infectious diseases, tropical medicine, ophthalmology, oral medicine, psychiatry, and other specialties.
Call the toll-free line at 1-866-887-2842 if you are a physician
seeking information or have medical skills and want to be part
of the relief effort. The call center is linked to a nationwide
network of our academic health center partners.
We are also beefing up collaborations with the local
medical community and centers across the country to provide acute
patient
care in stricken zones.
At the departmental level, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has asked
NIH and other agencies to help staff 250-bed acute care facilities.
Here in Bethesda, the NIH Clinical Center has 100 beds ready to
accept patients needing specialized care. For more on the
medical response, go to NIH's Information
for Patients or Participants in Clinical Studies.
Find more general Web resources on NIH's NIH
Response to Hurricane Katrina Disaster, NIAID's NIAID
Responds to Hurricane Katrina, and HHS's Hurricane
Katrina and
news section of the HHS
home page.
Interim R01 Paylines for Next Fiscal Year
Until the Institute receives its FY 2006 budget, we've set a conservative interim R01 payline at the 14.0 percentile. We'll let you know as soon as we post our final paylines on Paylines and Funding.
To get an Email Alert on this topic, choose "NIAID Paylines and Budget" in the "Your Interests" column of the Email Alerts Profile page. This page will appear after you sign on to the NIAID Funding News and Email Alerts Subscription Center.
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