OSP Town Meetings

The Office of Sponsored Projects will present the results of the Business Process Improvement Team at two upcoming OSP town meetings.  These meetings will highlight upcoming changes in core OSP business practices that will affect departments.  It will also provide the opportunity for audience feedback.

Please mark your calendars for one of the following two meetings:

July 29, DHMC, Auditorium A, 9:00-10:30 a.m.

August 26, 108 Kemeny Hall, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

For further information, please contact Karin Spanos at
karin.o.spanos@dartmouth.edu.

WRITING THE NEW NIH GRANT: A SYSTEMATIC, PROVEN APPROACH - Friday, July 23, 2010

This year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the new "Enhancing Peer Review" guidelines for research grant structure and content. Now, most R, K, and F grant types must be restructured to fit within half the space previously allotted for the research plan. While streamlining peer review, the newly redesigned grant structure requires a different approach to grant writing. In this seminar, we explore the NIH research grant with its restructured content, and present a proven and systematic strategy for writing an NIH grant. We specifically dissect the new research section and discuss many common mistakes investigators make in writing this section of the grant. We also address grant organization, aesthetics, and aspects of language and writing important to presentation. Overall, we present a strategy of grant writing that will improve investigator grantsmanship.

Speaker: Christopher Dant, PhD  
Norris Cotton Cancer Center and
Instructor, Microbiology/Immunology 

Seminar Topic: "Writing the New NIH Grant: A Systematic, Proven Approach"

Seminar Date: Friday, July 23, 2010

Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Location: DHMC Aud. G

FASEB Urges Taking Action to Preserve NIH Funding

NIH Funding: Take Action Now!

Dear Colleague,

Next week, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor/Health & Human Services/Education (LHHS) will consider FY 2011 funding for NIH. It is important to position the agency along a path of sustainable, predictable growth. Congress needs to hear that message from you NOW.

Please go to http://capwiz.com/faseb/issues/alert/?alertid=15224066 to email your Representative today and ask that s/he support $37 billion for NIH in the fiscal year 2011 Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill. Together, we can make a difference for science!

Sincerely,
William T. Talman
William T. Talman, MD
FASEB President