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3. NIH reissues the Reentry Supplement Program and broadens eligibility

4. Can I apply for an SBIR if I won't qualify as a small business until later?

5. The Table Of Contents Of The August 1, 2008 NIH Guide

Applicants should use text only for the following two application components:

• Description: Project Summary and Relevance, in the PHS 398 paper application (see PHS 398 instructions in Part I, 4.2.1), and
• Project Summary/Abstract and Project Narrative, in the SF424(R&R) for electronic submissions (see SF424 instructions in Part I, 4.4, items 6 and 7).

The information provided in these components becomes part of the Summary Statement that documents the results of the review process.  When a grant application is selected for award, the information become publicly available in the Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects database (CRISP;http://report.nih.gov/crisp/index.aspx).  If figures or information not in standard text format are included in these components of application submissions, it is not transferred for the other uses and a blank section will appear.  Therefore, it is important that applications consist of text only in these two components.

Applicants should not embed movies or other materials in the PDF attachments of the Research Plan or of other components of electronic submissions.  These will not be available to NIH staff and/or reviewers after the transit of the application through the Grants.gov and NIH eRA processing systems.

The American Journal of Medicine has published new data that sheds light on why clinical research applications do not fare as well as basic science applications in peer reviews at the National Institutes of Health. The NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) initiated this study to follow-up its earlier studies to address the perception that clinical research grant applications are disadvantaged in the NIH peer review process.

Read the CSR News Flash Here

The Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), participating Institutes and Centers (ICs) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) announce a continuing program for administrative supplements to research grants to support individuals with high potential to re-enter an active research career after a qualifying interruption for family or other responsibilities.

• Purpose. The purpose of these supplements is to encourage such individuals to re-enter research careers within the missions of all the program areas of NIH. This program will provide administrative supplements to existing NIH research grants for the purpose of supporting full-time or part-time research by these individuals in a program geared to bring their existing research skills and knowledge up to date
  

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To get a Small Business Innovation Research award, you must qualify at the time of award. Otherwise, NIH will inactivate your application and you won't receive 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 August 1, 2008

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

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=8-01-2008