What is a NIH Regional Seminar?  Held twice a year, the NIH Regional Seminars are intended to help demystify the application and review process, clarify federal regulations and policies, and highlight current areas of special interest or concern. NIH policy officials, grants management and program staff, as well as representatives from the Office for Human … Continue reading “Make Plans to Attend a 2009 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration”

OER has recently added the capability for users to print a certificate of completion of the Financial Conflict of Interest Tutorial; so if you have already taken it, revisit it to print our your certificate. If you have not yet taken the tutorial, do so as soon as possible! The tutorial, developed to help ensure … Continue reading “FCOI Tutorial Now Includes Certificate Capability”

Make plans today for attending one of the 2009 NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration. Over 25 HHS and NIH policy, grants management, review and program staff members will be on hand to provide a broad array of expertise and insight related to federal regulations and policies, and provide the fundamentals of … Continue reading “2009 NIH Regional Seminars Announced: Atlanta and Las Vegas”

Sherry Mills, M.D., M.P.H., will assume the position of Director, Office of Extramural Programs (OEP), Office of Extramural Research (OER), to be effective November 9, 2008.

A new window onto the world of protein structure has opened with the launch of the PSI-Nature Structural Genomics Knowledgebase (PSI-SGKB). The PSI-SGKB is a free resource from the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) and Nature Publishing Group (NPG).

The HHS Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) has posted on its Web site a finalized guidance document entitled, “Guidance on Engagement of Institutions in Human Subjects Research.”  The public comments submitted on the draft document were very helpful as this guidance document. The finalized guidance is on the OHRP Web site.  This new guidance … Continue reading “HHS Office of Human Research Protections Finalizes Documentation on Engagement of Human Subjects in Research”

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Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health Joxel García, M.D., M.B.A.,has announced the appointment of Jerry A. Menikoff, M.D., J.D. as the director of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary. Prior to joining OHRP, Dr. Menikoff served as the director of … Continue reading “Jerry A. Menikoff, M.D., J.D, appointed as the director of the Office for Human Research Protections”

A recording of the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare IACUC Staff Online Seminar, “Freedom of Information Act Policies,” held on September 18, 2008, is now available for viewing from the OLAW Web page http://www.grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/e-seminars.htm.

xTrain now at full steam to reduce paperwork and streamline the grant process.