Monday, March 21, 2011 8:30 a.m. Conference Room D
Morning Session: Objectives of Glue Grants Interim Assessment – Open Session
Welcome and Introductions
Overall Plan for Evaluation – Dr. Peter Preusch (NIGMS)
Overview of Glue Grant Program – Dr. Michael Rogers (NIGMS)
Discussion of Previous Process and In-Progress Evaluations – Dr. Juliana Blome (NIGMS)
Charge to the Committee – Dr. Jeremy Berg (NIGMS)
Discussion of Questions to be Answered by the Panel – Dr. Norma Allewell (Chair)
Panel Questions for Glue Grant Scientific Liaisons and Program Officials
Break
Discussion of Objective Data – Presentation by Discovery Logic-Thomson Reuters, Inc.
Discussion of Community Input Data – Presentation by Ripple Effect Communications, Inc.
Discussion of Data Received from PIs – Questions for NIGMS Glue Grant Administrators
Lunch – Executive Session – Panel Members only
Afternoon Session: Assessment of Individual Glue Grant Outcomes – Closed Session
Alliance for Cellular Signaling
Consortium for Functional Glycomics
Cell Migration Consortium
Break – Executive Session – Panel Members only
Lipid MAPS
Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury
The objective of these sessions is to develop the responses to the individual glue grant assessment questions for each project that will feed into the overall glue grant program meta-analysis.
Wrap-Up Session – Things to think about overnight. Any additional data that needs to be requested or retrieved? Writing assignments for individual projects? Mechanics? Questions for tomorrow?
Meeting Adjourned by 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. Conference Room D
Morning Session: Overall Outcomes Assessment
Discussion of Overall Outcomes of Glue Grants by Goal and Proximity of Impact
Knowledge – Major Advances Achieved?
Methods/Technology/Tools – Could they not have otherwise been achieved?
Community – In-group/Out-group – Supergroup – Leverage - did it make a difference?
Data and Databases – Who cares, do we care, does the community care?
Impact – Has the course of science or medicine been shifted?
The objective of this session will be to discuss the overall impact of the glue grants program as a whole. It is expected that this conclusion will depend on the preponderance of evidence summed over each of the individual assessments completed the previous day.
Break
Consideration of Potential Changes to the Glue Grant Program
Discussion of Final Questions – Continue, Modify or Discontinue
Final Wrap-Up Session – Major Conclusions, Writing Assignments Planning Report
Meeting Adjourned at 12:30 p.m.