December 1, 2008
Over the past thirty years, NIH has initiated programs to increase diversity within the scientific workforce. The coming year will mark the beginning of renewed efforts to enhance our current activities, and to identify other opportunities to address diversity in the scientific research enterprise.
December 1, 2008
December 3, Acting Director, NIH Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D., announced the appointment of Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S., as Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
December 1, 2008
CSR changed the chartered study section descriptions to make them more transparent and reflective of the types of applications actually reviewed by CSR study sections.
December 1, 2008
The NIH will begin implementing changes in the Fiscal Year 2010 funding cycle. Investigators submitting applications in January 2009 and later should be aware of these new policies.
December 1, 2008
Transition to Adobe officially began on December 5, 2008, when NIH updated more than 500 active Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) with Adobe-based application packages and closed their PureEdge predecessors. The new Adobe forms are required for submission for most receipt dates in January and beyond.
December 1, 2008
For many months, the NIH has been explaining the new Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) project and how it will change the way we report on the research we fund. RCDC is part of a wider NIH effort to enhance public accessibility to reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities. We recently launched … Continue reading “RCDC, NIH RePORTing and You”
November 1, 2008
In this time of rapid global change, the NIH is newly energized in its mission of improving health worldwide, I eagerly look forward to supporting the Agency in this effort as it further strengthens its foundations for the future.
November 1, 2008
At the request of the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives, NIH Acting Director Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D., testified at a hearing entitled “Treatments for an Ailing Economy:Protecting Health Care Coverage and Investing in Biomedical Research,” held on November 13, 2008. (more…)
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