CCR Grand Rounds December 6: Dr. Steven Pavletik, Head, Graft-Versus-Host and Autoimmunity Unit, Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch; Acting Chief, Medical Oncology Transplantation and Immunotherapy Service, NCI. "Addressing Challenges in Clinical Research: The Model of Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease" December 13: Dr. Joan Massague, Chairman, Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Lecture title TBD. There will be no lecture on December 20 or 27. CCR Grand Rounds will resume on Tuesday, January 10, 2006. CCR Grand Rounds are held 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., in the Clinical Center's Lipsett Amphitheater.

Application Receipt Date: Feb. 27, 2006.

This funding opportunity will use the DP1 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3295. Inquiries: Dr. Judith H. Greenberg - pioneer@nih.gov

Image-Guided Cancer Interventions (STTR [R41/R42])
PA-06-031

Application Receipt Dates: New applications: Dec. 1, 2005; April 1 and Aug. 1, 2006.

This is a renewal of PA-04-063. This funding opportunity will use the R41 and R42 award mechanisms. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3292. Inquiries: Dr. Keyvan Farahani - farahank@mail.nih.gov; Dr. Laurence P. Clarke - lclarke@mail.nih.gov

Image-Guided Cancer Interventions (STTR [R43/R44])
PA-06-032

Application Receipt Dates: New applications: Dec. 1, 2005; April 1 and Aug. 1, 2006.

This is a renewal of PA-04-063. This funding opportunity will use the R43 and R44 award mechanisms. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3293. Inquiries: Dr. Keyvan Farahani - farahank@mail.nih.gov; Dr. Laurence P. Clarke - lclarke@mail.nih.gov

Research on Clinical Decision Making in Life-Threatening Illness
PA-06-077

Application Receipt Dates: New applications: Feb. 1, June 1, and Oct. 1, 2006; Feb. 1, June 1, and Oct. 1, 2007; Feb. 1, June 1, and Oct. 1, 2008. Competing continuation, revised, supplemental applications: March 1, July 1, and Nov. 1, 2006; March 1, July 1, and Nov. 1, 2007; March 1, July 1, and Nov. 1, 2008.

This is a renewal of PA-02-118. This funding opportunity will use the R01 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3294. Inquiries: Dr. Wendy Nelson - nelsonw@mail.nih.gov