News for Researchers

NIH electronic grant submissions: NIH requires that all grant applications be submitted electronically (era.nih.gov/electronicreceipt). Recently, NIH announced that it is reducing the error correction window to 2 business days for applications due on or after January 8, 2008; see www.grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-od-08-018.html.

Visit NCCAM's Active Funding Opportunities page, at nccam.nih.gov/cgi-bin/grants/funding.pl, for the following opportunities and others:

PAR-08-045: Outcomes, Cost-Effectiveness and the Decision Making Process to Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Sponsors: NCCAM, the National Cancer Institute, and the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. The initiative will support high-quality observational studies on the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of CAM as it is practiced in "real world" settings and on how decisions are made about using CAM. The goal is to obtain more information on which to base decisions about incorporating CAM into integrated health care. See PAR-08-045.
NCCAM is cosponsoring an award for research career development for CAM health professionals who hold an eligible CAM doctoral degree and are committed to a research career. See PAR-07-003.

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