September 5, 2007
News Articles
Opportunities and Resources
Advice Corner
New Funding Opportunities
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Share Your Views on Peer Review -- In Person
Attend one of NIH's live meetings to help shape the future of peer review. These four-hour forums will include plenty of time for open discussion as well as short presentations by members of the scientific community.
Pick one of these meetings:
- Chicago, September 12, 2007, at the Fairmont Princess.
- New York City, October 8, 2007, at the Embassy Suites.
- San Francisco, October 25, 2007, at the Renaissance Parc 55.
If you plan to go, use the Registration Form and see the Agenda for all three meetings. For questions, contact Dr. Vesna Kutlesic at 301/435-3670 or kutlesicv@od.nih.gov.
As you may recall from last month's article, "Deadline Extended for Peer Review Surveys," NIH wants advice from the scientific community on all aspects of the peer review process.
If you can't go to the meetings, you still have two days to comment on the peer review survey. The deadline is September 7. Send comments using the RFI Comment Form or email to PeerReviewRFI@mail.nih.gov.
New RSS Feed for NIAID News Releases
Get NIAID news releases delivered straight to your desktop, Web browser, email, or mobile device thanks to a new Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed.
RSS is a format for sharing and distributing Web content. When a news release is published on the NIAID Web site, the RSS feed will notify you automatically.
Here's how to use it:
- Search the Web for “RSS reader.” This will give you many choices of free software or Web-based readers.
- Copy and paste the following link into your reader: http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/RSS/RssFeed.htm
If you click the link instead of copying, some browsers won't display anything even though the feed is working. Other browsers may show the raw feed data or give a subscribe option.
For more information, visit NIAID's RSS Help.
World Health Report 2007
Want to learn how the International Health Regulations help countries identify risks and control them? See the World Health Organization's 2007 World Health Report, A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century.
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Grab Your Passport for International Training in Clinical Research
Graduate students in the health professions have an exciting opportunity to go abroad for training in clinical research. Through the NIH/Fogarty Clinical Research Training Scholars Program, participants will get mentored experience at NIH-funded research centers in developing countries.
To qualify, you must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident enrolled in medical school or a doctoral-level program in nursing, pharmacy, or other health-related field. For other eligibility requirements, go to NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program.
Apply by December 14, 2007, using the Application Form. NIH will select finalists in March 2008. After an orientation at NIH in July, trainees will travel to their foreign site in August.
The fellowship program is sponsored by NIH's Fogarty International Center, NIAID, and other institutes.
If you have questions, contact either of the following:
Find Answers on Enhancing Diversity, Parental Leave, and Child Care
Check out new resources from NIH's Office of Extramural Research that answer frequently asked questions on these topics:
See the August 24, 2007, Guide notice for the announcement of both FAQs.
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Timing Corrections For Your Electronic Application
If you plan to submit a corrected electronic application, beware. You will need to reject the application image within the two-day NIH viewing period. If you don’t, your correction options will be more limited.
Also remember that you can take advantage of the two-day grace period after the deadline only to correct Commons errors or warnings. NIH may compare the corrections you made with your cover letter to confirm.
To explain the nuances, we've added If You Want to Correct After Passing Commons Validation in the NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal.
Editor's note: We corrected this article and the associated pages on December 5, 2007, to reflect that the correction window has changed to two days instead of five. See the NIH Guide notice, NIH Reduces Temporary “Error Correction Window” for Electronic Grant Applications from Five Business Days to Two.
Reader Questions on New Investigator Status and Sample Application
Neil Clancy, M.D., University of Florida, asks:
"I just received a Merit Review Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs as a PI. Am I still considered a new investigator for an R01 application?"
Yes. You would still be considered new for an R01 application because only PHS grants affect your new investigator status. Read Are You "New"? in our New Investigator Guide to NIH Funding.
Jini Naidoo, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, asks:
"I have an R21. Will I keep my new investigator status if I apply for a second R21?"
Yes, you would still be considered new. Many other PIs have taken the same approach. For a list of award types and how they affect your new investigator status, see Are You "New"? in our New Investigator Guide to NIH Funding.
Hannah Alsdurf, M.P.H., Bridgeport Hospital Foundation, asks:
"When might you post a sample of an electronic application online? As a new investigator, I accessed your sample annotated research grant proposal, which was extremely helpful."
We have tried to get permission to post a sample electronic application, but it appears to be too early for people to share that information. We expect it will take at least a year before application data are old enough that investigators would be willing to have their applications appear online.
For now, we have retained the relevant (and substantive) parts of our original sample as the Annotated R01 Research Plan and Summary Statement.
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