NIH and NIDDK Budget Updates
FY 2008 NIH Director’s Budget Request Statements
Senate Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, March 19, 2007
www.nih.gov/about/director/budgetrequest/fy2008directorssenatebudgetrequest.htm
House Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, March 6, 2007
www.nih.gov/about/director/budgetrequest/fy2008directorsbudgetrequest.htm
FY 2008 NIDDK Acting Director’s Budget Request Statement
House Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, March 6, 2007
www.niddk.nih.gov/federal/pdf/FY_2008_Budget_Request.pdf
NIH Summary of the FY 2008 President’s Budget, February 5, 2007
www.nih.gov/about/director/budgetrequest/pressinfofy2008.pdf
FY 2007 Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, February 22, 2007
grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-049.html
NIDDK Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Extramural Funding Policy
www2.niddk.nih.gov/funding/grants/fundingpolicy.htm
NIH Reform Act of 2006 / NIH Reauthorization
On January 15, the President signed H.R. 6164 as P.L. 109-482, the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006, affirming the importance of NIH and its vital role in advancing biomedical research to improve the health of the Nation. NIH will now move forward with implementing the legislation. More information about NIH Reauthorization is available on the NIH website:
www.nih.gov/about/reauthorization/index.htm
NIH Record, March 9, 2007; “Reauthorization Signals Renewed Confidence in NIH, Zerhouni Says,” by Rich McManus
www.nih.gov/nihrecord/03_09_2007/03092007_Record.pdf
Resources for New Investigators
NIH Director’s Bridge Awards
Similar to the High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56), the NIH Director’s Bridge Award (NDBA) is designed to provide continued, but limited, funding for new and established investigators who have submitted a competing renewal grant application that describes a highly meritorious project. The continued funding will permit the investigator additional time to strengthen a revised application. The NIH Director’s Bridge Awards notice was published in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts on March 14, 2007: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-056.html
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program
As part of NIH's commitment to increasing opportunities for new scientists, it has created the NIH Director's New Innovator Award to support exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact. This program is part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. More information about the program is available on the NIH website:
grants.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/innovator_award/
NIH Pathway to Independence Award Program
The NIH Pathway to Independence Award Program offers a new opportunity for promising postdoctoral scientists to receive both mentored and independent research support from the same award. More information about the program is available on the NIH website: grants.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/pathway_independence.htm
Additional resources for new investigators are available on the NIH and the NIDDK websites:
grants.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/index.htm
www2.niddk.nih.gov/Funding/Grants/Resources_NewInvestigators.htm
NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Update
New Roadmap Initiatives for 2008
NIH funded the first set of Roadmap initiatives in FY 2004 and anticipates the transition of these projects out of the Roadmap by FY 2014. In order to draw new projects into the Roadmap as old projects transition out, the NIH is in the midst of a process to solicit new ideas for the next set of Roadmap initiatives for funding consideration in FY 2008. More information about the planning process is available on the NIH website:
nihroadmap.nih.gov/2008initiatives.asp
NIH Pioneer Awards
The NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (NDPA) is meant to complement NIH’s traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. More information about the program is available on the NIH website: nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer/
More information about the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research is available on the NIH website: nihroadmap.nih.gov/
Electronic Submission of Grant Applications Update
NIH is transitioning from paper submission of grant applications to electronic submission via the web portal Grants.gov, while simultaneously phasing out the PHS398 grant application form and replacing it with the SF424, Research and Research-related (R&R), application. This staged transition began in December 2005 and will run through September 2007. More information about electronic submission of grant applications is available on the NIH website: era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/strategy_timeline.htm
Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Update
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), part of the NIH, recently launched a portal website for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), in order to provide a “one-stop site” for information about CTSA Consortium activities. Visit ctsaweb.org/ to learn more.
NIDDK Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities (2007) Published
The NIDDK Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities compendium highlights examples of the many research advances published by NIDDK-funded scientists and their colleagues in the most recent fiscal year, along with the technologies that made these achievements possible. The compendium is available to download on the NIDDK website: www.niddk.nih.gov/federal/advances/2007/advances_07.htm
NIDDK Opens New Unit for Metabolic Clinical Research
The NIDDK, in collaboration with the NIH Clinical Center, recently opened the new Metabolic Clinical Research Unit (MCRU). Located on the fifth and seventh floor of the Mark. O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the MCRU houses specialized, state-of-the-art facilities that will allow researchers to conduct cutting-edge research on the physiology and causes of obesity. More information about the MCRU and a video tour of the unit are available on the NIDDK website:
www2.niddk.nih.gov/Research/ClinicalResearch/MCRU/
New NIDDK Staff
NIDDK welcomes several new members to the staff. Jill Carrington, Ph.D., joins the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition and will direct a program of grants, including development and inflammation of the digestive system. Mary Evans, Ph.D., joins the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition and will lead multi-site clinical trials as Director of Special Projects in Nutrition, Obesity, and Digestive Diseases. Andrew Narva, M.D., joins the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases as the new Director of the National Kidney Disease Education Program. Christine Maric, Ph.D., joins the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases as a program officer for the Renal Pathophysiology and Acute Kidney Injury Programs. Robert Pike joins the NIDDK’s Grants Management Branch as Chief Grants Management Officer. Cyrus Karimian joins the NIDDK as Chief Information Officer and Computer Technology Branch Manager.
NIDDK Current Funding Opportunities
Find the current Requests for Applications (RFAs) and Program Announcements (PAs) that communicate NIDDK’s current funding opportunities and research interests on the NIDDK website:
www2.niddk.nih.gov/Funding/FundingOpportunities/
Recent Notices in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts
Find current NIDDK Notices in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts on the NIDDK website:
www2.niddk.nih.gov/Funding/FundingOpportunities/Notices
Upcoming Meetings and Workshops
NIDDK supports and participates in scientific meetings and workshops throughout the country and around the world. A listing of upcoming meetings and workshops is available on the NIDDK website: www.niddk.nih.gov/fund/other/conferences.htm
In the News
“NIH Director Launches Program for Innovative New Investigators”
NIH Office of the Director (OD)
Release date: March 9, 2007
www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2007/od-09.htm
“NIDDK Welcomes Seven New Members to Advisory Council”
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Release date: February 20, 2007
www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2007/niddk-20.htm
“Study Tests Oral Insulin to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes”
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Release date: January 31, 2007
www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2007/niddk-31.htm
“NIH Director Selects Dr. Alan M. Krensky as NIH Deputy Director for the Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI)”
NIH Office of the Director (OD) and Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI)
Release date: January 25, 2007
www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2007/opasi-25.htm
“NIH Director Welcomes Seven New Members to the Advisory Committee to the Director”
NIH Office of the Director (OD)
Release date: January 22, 2007
www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2007/od-22.htm
NIDDK Staff News
Barbara Merchant, Associate Director for Management at NIDDK, is retiring after 30 years of federal service at the NIH. She has worked for NIDDK for the past 12 years, the last eight years as the Associate Director for Management (Executive Officer). Ms. Merchant handled all the business management operations of the institute efficiently and effectively.
We are saddened by the loss of Yng-Gwei Chen, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in NIDDK’s Laboratory of Chemical Physics (LCP). She died on March 6 in a car accident en route from Bethesda to the Biophysical Society annual meeting in Baltimore. She would have been 31 years old on March 25. She will be remembered as a truly outstanding scientist, a wonderful coworker, and a great friend.
I look forward to continued interaction with those of you who have an interest in the programs of NIDDK.
Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., Acting Director
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