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3. New Funding Opportunities

4. Should institutions apply the PHS Policy to all animal activities regardless of the source of funding?

5. The Table of Contents of the March 14, 2008 NIH GUIDE

NIH expects that grant applications will be submitted on time. Standard dates are listed at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm.

• For applications that are required to use paper format these are submission or postmark dates, applications are on time if they are sent on these dates.
• For applications that are required to use electronic submission this requires successful submission to Grants.gov by 5 p.m. local time on the date indicated.
• For both paper and electronic submissions, when these dates fall on a weekend or holiday, they are extended to the next business day. However, Requests for Applications (RFAs) and Program Announcements with Special Referral Considerations (PARs) with special receipt dates always must be received (by Grants.gov for electronic applications and the Center for Scientific Review for paper applications) on the dates designated in the announcement to be on time. This is clearly noted in the website above and in the text of each RFA/PAR.
  

For information on NIH’s policies on late submission visit this NIH announcement: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-027.html

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 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/

2008 Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Funding Opportunities

FY08 PCRP Program Announcements are expected to be released between January and February 2008.

Brief descriptions of each program are being released in the News Release on the CDMRP website at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2008/08pcrppreann.htm.

The March of Dimes 2009 Request for Proposals. 

This information can be found on their web site at http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/691.asp. 

4. Should institutions apply the PHS Policy to all animal activities regardless of the source of funding?

There are many valid reasons for institutions to perform program oversight institution-wide using uniform and consistent standards for animal care and use.  Likewise, it is generally impractical to separate activities based on the source of funding.  Institutions must implement the PHS Policy for all PHS supported activities involving animals, and must ensure that any standards that might not be consistent with PHS Policy do not affect or pose risks to PHS supported activities.

Itis permissible for institutions to delineate animal areas that are programmatically and functionally separate and that do not support PHS animal activities such as a herd of beef cattle used for food production or a stable of riding horses.  The Assurance should explicitly reflect the exclusion of any specific area or activity.  [A1, A3, A4]

The University of Toledo IACUC Policy and our Assurance(s) state that PHS Policy will apply to all live animal activities regardless of the source of funding.

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 March 14, 2008

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

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=3-14-2008