Early next week, OMB is expected to publish an Advance Notice of Proposed Guidance in the Federal Register to solicit public comment on several ideas focused on increasing the effectiveness…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a construction grant to Boston University Medical Campus to partly fund the design and construction of one of two National Biocontainment Laboratories. These…

In the US and many other nations, programmatic overlap of awards is generally to be avoided. This is clearly articulated by the NIH in their Grants Policy Statement description of…

On Feb 10th, the Small Business Association (US) published new guidelines in the Federal Register. 37 small business size standard for 34 industries and three sub-industries in the North American Industry…

The National Science Foundation (US)  published today a summary report for 2011. The report demonstrates that NSF awards dropped in number by 13.9% between FY 2010 and FY2 2011; there were…

In a briefing after the budget was announced, Science Insider reports on the specific “new grants management policies” that would support increasing the number of new awards. In order to…

Today, the NIH announced the first of several Finding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) rolling out electronic submission for administrative supplements. This FOA (PA-12-100) is available for prior approval requests to nearly…

Today, the President’s proposed 2013 Federal budget was presented to Congress and released to the public. In an effort to assist the public with access to the President’s budget request,…

On February 8th, NIH published a request for input into the development of the Scientifc Strategic Plan for a proposed new Institute. NIH proposes to create a new Institute, with…

On Dec 16th, Rep. Darrell Issa introduced legislation (H.R. 3699) that would end the experiment in public access that has been ongoing at the NIH since implementing PL 110-161 (<a href="”…