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3. Make Transient Molecular Complexes Less Complex

4. What Constitutes a Change in Scope?

5. The Table Of Contents Of The May 16, 2008 NIH Guide

New NSF Survey Finds Six States Account for Nearly Half of State Agencies R&D Expenditures! 

Results of a new survey show that state agency expenditures for research and development and R&D facilities topped $1 billion in state fiscal year 2006. Expenditures of six states, Pennsylvania, California, New York, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida, accounted for 49% of all state-agency research and development.

You'll be surprised to discover Ohio spends twice what Texas does!

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Good news for anyone on a mentored career development award (K01, K08, K22, K23, K25).

Thanks to a new NIH policy, you may now receive concurrent salary support from a peer-reviewed grant from any federal agency during the last two years of your award. Previously, the grant had to be from NIH. If you're eligible, you may reduce your K award's time and effort to no less than six person months.

To take advantage of the change, you must meet the following criteria:

• Be the PI on a competing research project grant or director of a subproject on a multicomponent grant from NIH or another federal agency.
• Have an active K award.

Have an idea for a tool or process to study transient molecular complexes? Check out these small business funding opportunities:

• New Technologies for Transient Molecular Complex Characterization (SBIR [R43/R44])
• New Technologies for Transient Molecular Complex Characterization (STTR [R41/R42])

Your proposed research should develop new or extend existing technologies to enhance understanding of the effects of subtle mutations or environmental factors in the development and progression of diseases.

Changes in the scope of the research significantly alter your peer-reviewed and Council-approved project. You need to obtain approval from your grants management specialist before making this type of change.

Here are some examples that might change the scope of your research:

• Changing the Specific Aims.
  
• Changing to a different animal model.
  
• Using research animals or human subjects in a way other than approved.
  
• Shifting the research emphasis from one disease area to another.
  
• Including new research animals or human subjects.
  
• Using a new technology.
  
• Rebudgeting funds in or out of a single budget category by more than 25 percent of the total costs of the award.
  
• Rebudgeting funds so that an alterations and renovations project exceeds $300,000.
  
• Changing the principal investigator.
  
• Having the principal investigator on a leave of absence for more than 90 days.

For a list of all actions that constitute a change in scope, see NIH Grants Policy Statement on Prior Approval Requirements.

Iftransferring a grant from one organization to another, read NIH Grants Policy Statement on Change of Grantee Organization.

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 May 16, 2008

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

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=5-16-2008