The University of Toledo

3. Grants.gov Troubleshooting Tips Page

4. Enhancing NIH Peer Review: Update

5. The Table Of Contents Of The September 26, 2008 NIH Guide

See Sept. 23 "Reminder Notice" at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-119.html 

Here’s the UT info:

http://www.utoledo.edu/library/mulford/nihpubaccess.htm

Concepts represent early planning stages for initiatives: program announcements, requests for applications, or request for proposals. Visit: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/budget/in-main.htm for more information.

Help is provided for common troubleshooting issues such as verifying your Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) status, login for E-Business Point of Contact (E-Biz POC) and accessing search results. These troubleshooting tips can help you quickly resolve your technical issues. Visit the Tips page here: http://www.grants.gov/help/trouble_tips.jsp

NIH has released a set of recommendations to improve Peer Review, and the recommendations have been is organized into the following four priority areas.

Engage the best reviewers: The excellence of peer review is directly correlated with the ability to recruit and retain the most accomplished scientists to serve on NIH study sections.

Quality and transparency of review: The process of review should focus on the potential impact, originality and feasibility of the proposed research.

Provide balanced and fair reviews across scientific fields and career stages, and reduce administrative burden on applicants: Peer review should fairly evaluate proposals from all scientists, regardless of their career stage or discipline and avoid bias towards more conservative and proven approaches at the expense of innovation and originality.

Develop a permanent process for continuous review of peer review: The NIH peer review process will commit to a continuous quality control and improvement process based on a rigorous and independent prospective evaluation that favors innovative approaches to review and program management.

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 Rick Francis, rick.francis@utoledo.edu, at HSC extension 4252.

NIH Guide For Week Ending September 26, 2008

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

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=9-26-2008