NIH Clinical Center: A Resource for Extramural Researchers?
Back in December 2010, the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) released a report stating that the NIH Clinical Center is in a prime position to provide a critical resource to…
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Research Performance Progress Report – US Government
The Research Performance Progress Report (RPRR) will be used by agencies that support research and research-related activities to collect interim progress reports from recipients of Federal grant and cooperative agreement…
The Virtualization of Research Collaboration
Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than an actual) version of something. The term ‘virtualization’ originated in the computing world and has come to represent the creation of…
Taking Advantage of Modern Full-Text Search Engines
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…
Financial Tracking: Did you know?
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…
Researcher: To Be or Not To Be
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…
InfoEd support for NIH Adobe-B2 Application Forms
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…
NIH Announces Medical Research Scholars Program
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…
NSF Funds Public/Private Partnerships to Identify Entrepreneurial Qualities in Research
On July 28th, 2011, the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new funding program titled Innovation Corps, or “I-Corps”. The I-Corps program will provide up to 100 grants…
US Federal-wide Researcher Profiles
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…