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3. Review Committee Service Not Appealing? NIH Hears Your Concerns

4. Funding Opportunities through your UT Portal

5. The Table Of Contents Of The May 30, 2008 NIH Guide

This one-day workshop was developed by SCAW to train individuals concerned with science and appropriate animal welfare.  The program is designed for experienced IACUC members and administrators, principal investigators, attending veterinarians, regulatory personnel and laboratory animal care staff.  The regional workshop format provides an opportunity for small groups to discuss specific, advanced topics that are relevant to IACUC functions.  Each workshop is customized to meet the needs of the local community. 

The workshop will be held June 4, 2008 at the Blackwell Hotel & Conference Center on the Ohio State University Campus.

For program agenda, registration and accommodation information, visit http://www.scaw.com/iacuc-advanced.htm 

This document from Grants.gov explains what will occur after the submission of a grant application package.

Once it was an honor. Now, an invitation to be a peer reviewer is seen by many scientists as a chore.

Tight budgets mean fewer applications have a good chance of receiving funding, which can make review committee service as appealing as washing dishes. 

Plus, a sustained increase in application numbers means NIH needs ever more peer reviewers, raising questions about the qualifications of some committee members. See NIH Mulls Ways to Lure Back Veteran Peer Reviewers.

NIH is listening to these concerns, while experimenting with ways to strengthen peer review. Likely changes include shorter applications, more virtual online meetings, and better alignment of critiques to review criteria.

Did you know that you can subscribe to NIH and COS Funding Opportunities via your UT Portal?

Here’s how:

1. From the My UT portal page, select the “Content/Layout” option in the top left corner.
2. Select the tab you would like your funding opportunities to appear on, and the desired location and click the button “add Channel” 
3. Select a category (such as resources) and this will propagate a list of channels available to you. Highlight the desired channel and complete the process by selecting the add channel button under step 3.

Channels that may be of interest to you:

1. Funding News from COS (RSS)
2. Health Science Funding News – COS RSS
3. Humanities Funding News –COS RSS
4. NIH Funding Opportunities

Continue to browse the UT portal channels and find the many ways you can personalize your home page to better work for you.

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 30, 2008

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

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=5-30-2008