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3. Powerful Award Trend Resource in the Works

4. NIH Partners in Research Program RFA to be Published

5. Using COS to Save and Track your Funding Opportunities

6. The Table Of Contents Of The November 2, 2007 NIH Guide

eRA has updated the eRA Commons Status software with a new look and new feature including:

• Anew search feature that allows tracking of electronically submitted applications from the Status screen using the Grants.gov tracking number.

• Reorganization of the application/grant data into two separate sections.

• Grouping of multiple submission attempts for a single application.

For more information: http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/news_aor_10-16-07.htm

NIH plans to do away with paper mailing of Notice of Award letters effective Jan. 1, 2008 as it moves towards its goal of a paperless grants process. Instead, NoAs will be sent solely via e-mail to grantee organizations and will be accessible in the eRA Commons through the Status module.

For information, see NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-08-002 

Have you ever wondered which applications were awarded for a specific Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) or wanted to know the award dollars break down by FOA type for a specific NIH Institute or Center? The NIH Office of Extramural Research’s Division of Information Systems is building a powerful new resource to its Award Trends Website that puts this type of reporting right at your fingertips.

Check out Total Award Dollars by Type of Funding Opportunity Announcement FY 2006 and 2007.

4. NIH Partners in Research Program RFA to be Published

NIH intends to publish a request for applications for the NIH Partners in Research Program. It will support two-year pilot and/or feasibility studies of innovative activities designed to improve public understanding of biomedical and behavioral research, develop strategies for promoting collaboration between scientists and the community to improve the health of the public, and to identify the conditions that will enhance the effectiveness of such activities.

5. Using COS to Save and Track your Funding Opportunities

Did you know you can now save up to 40 funding searches to your COS Workbench? At the top of any funding search results page, choose Save this Search and it will appear on your COS Workbench, below in the Your Saved Funding Searches section. From your workbench you can run, edit and delete your saved searches, and for COS Funding Alert users, set your COS Funding Alert email preferences, too.

Even better, you can also share any saved search with other COS users. Just click the Share link for the saved search on your COS Workbench, enter up to 5 email addresses, and click Send. Your colleagues will receive a dynamic URL link that they can click to run the search, and then save themselves. You can even send a link to yourself and embed it in HTML code to create a link to your search on a webpage.

Now you can track up to 200 funding records. To use, simply click Track this record at the top of any funding record. You can also Tag your tracked records with whatever terms you like. All your tracked records will appear in the Your Tracked Funding Records section of you COS Workbench, where you can view, edit and delete them. You can also sort your tracked records by clicking a tag from the your tags list, and then Share those records with other COS users.

Plus, COS Funding Alert users can choose to receive email alerts when a tracked record is updated in our database. Just check the Alert Emails check box next to tracked records on your COS Workbench.

http://www.cos.com/

6. The Table of Contents of the November 2, 2007 NIH GUIDE

The previous static listings for browsing published NIH Guide announcements have been replaced with real-time database query listings that retrieve only active Requests for Applications ( RFAs ) and Program Announcements ( PAs ), based on the expiration dates stated in those announcements. The new listing for NIH Guide Notices displays Notices published over the last two years, by default, since expiration dates are not currently assigned to these announcements. Links to these new resources are available from the main NIH Guide Funding Opportunities and Notices page ( http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html ).

All announcements (active plus inactive) in each category may also be viewed by using selections in the drop-down box at the top of each listing page. Clicking on header links allows re-sorting of lists. In addition, a new Ad Hoc NIH Guide Database Search page http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/search_guide.htm is available, which allows for individualized queries with various selection criteria.

If you have any difficulty obtaining the information you need from the Guide, contact Carol Wilkerson, carol.wilkerson@utoledo.edu, at HSC extension 4252, or Rick Francis, rick.francis@utoledo.edu, at MC extension 6193.

NIH Guide For Week Ending November 2, 2007

[Use The Link Below To Access Table of Contents of Guide]

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=11-02-2007