The Global Health Bulletin
Date: 11/28/2006

FYI

Additional Foundations to Support Your Research: A  list of grant funding organizations outside NIH whose areas of science mesh with NIAIDs.

Would You Like to See Shorter R01s? It's time to speak up. After hearing from you, NIH will decide whether to reduce the 25-page limit for R01 Research Plans. 

Coming Soon: PI Proliferation: Right on schedule, NIH made the investigator-friendly decision to allow more than one PI for most electronic applications, including R01s.

Resubmissions: What to Do After Two Attempts? Grant budgets and paylines are diminishing, and your application just misses the payline -- again. As you may know, you can only revise it twice before you must submit a new application.

Meetings/Conferences/Seminars (See all events here)

Human Rights Week Activities: A collaborative of several organizations on campus have planned several events for Human Rights Week including lectures and film screenings.

World AIDS Day activities: Date: December 1, 2006. Hosted by: multiple JHU organizations. Place: JHU East Baltimore campus.

Notices

Announcing availability of pre-registration for the NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration: Changes and updates regarding NIH grant submissions. Several changes in the NIH process are summarized in the NIH Extra mural Nexus.

New Limits on Appendix Materials for All NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Grant Applications Beginning with Receipt Dates On or After January 3, 2007: (NOT-OD-07-018) National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Confirm R01 Electronic Application Submission Plans for February 5 Receipt Date (NOT-OD-07-020) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-020.html 

Change in submission of NIAID Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Grants (R01). (NOT-AI-07-011)

Opportunities

Brazil's Young Scientist Program: If you're under age 35, you may want to apply for funding to attend the Young Scientist Forum on May 21 to 25, 2007, in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

Project Funding (See all funding oppportunities here)

Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP) Small Research Grant Program (R03): (PA-07-093) Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health: (PA-05-029) Application Receipt Dates: multiple dates see announcement. The R01 portion of this funding opportunity has been replaced by PA-07-045 , which now uses the electronic SF424 (R&R) application for February 5, 2007 submission dates and beyond.

Research on Mind-Body Interactions and Health (R01): (PA-07-046) Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement. 

Research Project Grant (Parent R01): (PA-07-070)  Application Receipt/Submission Date(s):  Multiple dates, see announcement. 

HIV Infection Of The Central Nervous System (R01): (PA-07-089)  Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.

Merck to Extend Vaccine Training Centers in Africa. (From NIAD Funding News): The Merck Company Foundation is seeking grant applications from eligible organizations to expand the number of training Centers that are part of the Merck Vaccine Network-Africa.

Recent HIV Infection: New Prevention Challenges and Opportunities (R01): (PA-07-087)  Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement. 

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