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Congratulations to the two UCSF nominees for the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Beckman Young Investigators Program. Elissa Epel, PhD department of Psychiatry and Orion Weiner, PhD, Cardiovascular Research Institute will go forward as UCSF nominees with a full proposal application to the Foundation. [more ...]
Anti-research terrorists have recently increased actions against some members of the UCSF community. It is particularly important that a stranger is not let in to our facilities without them producing their key card, swipingin, and getting the green light. [more...]
New Fringe Benefit Rates and Salary Projections
Updated fringe benefit rates and salary projections have now been posted on the C&G webpage at http://www.research.ucsf.edu/cg/memo/cgFringe.aspThese updated rates should be used effective immediately when preparing sponsored project proposals. [more...]
Resource Allocation Program (RAP)
Resource Allocation Program (RAP), a major new campus-wide grant program at UCSF for basic and clinical scientist announced. [more...]
National News
As has occurred in previous years, the NIH has not yet received its final budget appropriation and is therefore now acting on a continuing resolution. This means that until the final 2008 FY appropriation is enacted, NIH will be issuing all non-competing continuation awards at a level below that indicated in the last award notice (NOA). [more...]
British Team Will Try New Program to Increase Egg Donations for Stem-Cell Research
In an effort to increase the supply of human eggs available for use in embryonic-stem-cell studies, a team of British scientists is moving forward with an “egg sharing for research” program, in which women seeking in-vitro fertilization can receive the treatment at a reduced price if they agree to donate half of the eggs harvested during the procedure to research.[more...]
Pentagon Spending for Basic Research and Darpa Would Fall Under Senate Panel's Bill
Defense spending on basic research would receive no increase in 2008 under a plan approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The budget for Darpa, the Pentagon’s premier research agency, would be trimmed by nearly 7 percent.[more...]
NIH Awards Grants to 9 Consortia, Marking Shift Toward Interdisciplinary Research
The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday that it had awarded $210-million in grants meant to foster interdisciplinary research, in a move that officials say represents a “fundamental change” in the agency’s research culture." [more...]
Scientists Sue Caltech, Commerce Dept., and NASA Over Security Rules
A group of 28 scientists and other employees at the Jet Propulsion Lab run by the California Institute of Technology filed a class action lawsuit against Caltech, the Department of Commerce, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Aug. 30, 2007, in opposition to new security requirements. [more...]
The fiscal year 2008 appropriations bill for the Department of Defense (H.R. 3222), passed by the House of Representatives on Aug. 5, 2007, and referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Sep. 4, caps facilities and administrative cost reimbursement as 20% total direct costs for any DoD contract, grant, or agreement for basic research. [more...]
'Full' Implementation of Shorter Review Cycle Announced for Certain NIH Grant Applications
Beginning with the September-October review cycle, the Center for Scientific Review within the National Institutes of Health changed its review process to allow consecutive cycle resubmissions for all new investigator R01 applications reviewed by all its recurring study sections. [more...]
NIH Releases Final Policy on Centralized Database of Human Genetic Data
The National Institutes of Health announced on Tuesday the final version of a policy governing a powerful, central repository of human genetic data that the agency will establish for the study of diseases.
Among other provisions, the policy will give scientists who contribute data to the repository exclusive rights for up to 12 months to publish scholarly analyses based on the data. [more...]
Updated PHS Grants Guides Now Available
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Grants.gov
Application Guide SF424 (R&R) and the corresponding Grants.gov SBIR/STTR
Application Guide has been updated. Updates include additional guidance on dealing with subaward budgets, a recent policy change to exclude federal holidays from the two-day application viewing window, and suggested clarifications from the applicant community. “We realize posting an updated application guide close to major R01 submission deadline may cause some anxiety. However, the updates simply incorporate previously announced policy and applicant suggested clarifications into a single information source, “according to NIH.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/appl_guide_changes_20070913.doc.
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