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Entries Tagged as 'award'
VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists
January 29th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Last fall, a stimulus award was made by NIH to fund an effort to create a national network of scientists. This award presented an opportunity to create a centralized resource for scientists to discover collaborators and scholarship across institutions. The network is currently comprised of seven institutions: University of Florida, Cornell, Indiana University, Washington University [...]
Tags:ARRA, award, collaboration, stimulus, tool, VIVO, Washington University
Pediatric cancer genome project
January 25th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Washington University School of Medicine and St. Jude Children’s Hospital have teamed up on a $65 million project to sequence the genomes of 600 pediatric cancer patients. Read more at MassGenomics and the St. Louis Business Journal
Shortened/Restructured NIH Grant Applications
December 15th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Next month we’ll see some changes to the NIH grant applications, requiring the use of new forms and new instructions (including shorter page limits!). Application Structure NIH is restructuring the applications by aligning the structure and content with review criteria. This alignment will help ensure that both reviewer and applicant expectations coincide for a more efficient and [...]
Tags:award, grant, NIH, peer review
Grants & Funding
November 26th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Check out Science magazine’s Grants & Funding resources for useful information and alerts about funding resources. Funding News (RSS) The Funding News, now published weekly, provides the latest index of science research funding, scholarships, fellowships, and internships. Deadline Watch The Deadline Watch, now part of the Funding News, provides upcoming due dates for science research [...]
Tags:award, funding, grant, Information
Ribosomes
October 19th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 went to a trio of scientists (Venki Ramakrishnan, Tom Steitz, and Ada Yonath) “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome“. The ribosome is a particularly elegant macromolecular machine, responsible for taking the transcribed message from our DNA code (mRNA) and decoding it to produce a [...]
Obama visits NIH today
September 30th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
President Obama will be at NIH today to talk about ARRA and highlight $5 billion in new research funds. NIH Videocasting/Podcasing site: President Barack Obama Visits the NIH Campus to Announce Recovery Act Funding for Groundbreaking Medical Research WATCH THE VIDEOCAST Read more…NIH recovery grants top $5 billion (TheScientist.com)
NSF’s GRFP and other NSF funding opportunities
September 26th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Don’t forget that the deadlines for NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program begin on November 2! Check out the GRFP program announcement website where you will find such helpful things as contact information, FastLane FAQs for Applicants , Information about the Program for Applicants and Fellows, and even Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program. You probably won’t [...]
Tags:award, fellowship, funding, postdocs
NIH STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS
September 1st, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News NIH Office of the Director (OD) For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 CONTACT: Megan Columbus, 301-435-0937, <e-mail:columbum@od.nih.gov> NIH HELPS ADVANCE RESEARCH CAREERS THROUGH STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS Over Two Years, Programs Offer to Pay Up to $70,000 of Scientists’ Educational Debt; [...]
Tags:award, fellowship, funding, Information, NIH
SciVal Funding Trial Access
July 8th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
SciVal is a suite of research tools from Elsevier that helps you evaluate, establish, and execute your research strategies more effectively. SciVal Funding is a “web-based funding intelligence solution” which helps investigators: FIND the right funding opportunities ANALYZE the funding environment MAXIMIZE award chances Pilot for the Washington University Community: The Office of the Vice [...]
Tags:award, event, funding, helpful, interesting, research, resources, science, tool
