Category: Grants & Contracts

Posted on October 14, 2011 by |
Hopefully, many of you have seen and utilized the recently launched SPIN QS funding opportunity search engine. One of the primary goals of that initiative was to implement a truly modernized full-text search engine in order to allow people utilizing…
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Posted on October 12, 2011 by |
Through the magic of InfoEd, an institution with the Financial Tracking module can create accounts with the budgets of the awards that they receive.  Once an account is created, it can then be updated with pertinent information and then pushed…
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Posted on October 11, 2011 by |
Is Researcher a viable career choice today in the US? The success rate for grants at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) dropped well below the 20% rate to an historic low, perhaps as low as 17.4% during 2011 (Science…
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Posted on September 11, 2011 by |
NIH has begun phasing in a new set of forms for electronic submission – “ADOBE-FORMS-B2”. The first application deadline requiring use of these “B2” forms is in early September, although applications based on the parent opportunities (R01, R03, etc.) can…
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Posted on September 11, 2011 by |
The United States National Institutes of Health has launched a new Medical Research Scholars program that will begin approximately one year from now. The program will represent a collaborative effort between the NIH, the Foundation for NIH, Howard Hughes Medical…
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Posted on August 6, 2011 by |
As those of you who attend the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) meetings knows, the goal of a database of researcher profiles that can be shared/referenced across agencies to facilitate proposal development has been an ongoing topic of discussion. Lattes Platform,…
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Posted on August 5, 2011 by |
Many of you may have noticed that the SF-424 R&R forms expired on 6/30/2011 (fig. 1). Federal forms for grant applications flow through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) clearance process, which is designed to comply with the Paperwork…
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Posted on August 1, 2011 by |
As everyone is aware, the NIH began posting new opportunities using updated forms, the “Adobe – Forms-B2” Three changes are incorporated into the new forms. Two of the changes are invisible to InfoEd users as they merely correct errors that…
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