NIGMS Feedback Loop Digest | October 2024

Mercedes Rubio to Direct Division for Research Capacity Building

Mercedes Rubio has been selected as the new director of our?Division for Research Capacity Building . Mercedes is a medical sociologist by training and is currently chief of the Predoctoral Basic Biomedical and Medical Scientist Training Programs Branch in our Division of Training and Workforce Development. She also manages research training, scientific conference, and research on intervention grants and has been the program director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Program Consortium’s National Research Mentoring Network.

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Upcoming Changes to NIH Applications for NIGMS Fellowships

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is making a number of changes to the fellowship application and peer review process for due dates?on or after January 25, 2025. For details, visit the?Revisions to the NIH Fellowship Application and Review Process webpage . New funding announcements and application instructions will be released in the coming months.

Learn the impact these changes will have on NIGMS fellowship grant applications.

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Upcoming Changes to NIH Applications for NIGMS Undergraduate Training Grants

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is making a number of updates to training grant applications for due dates?on or after January 25, 2025. For details, visit the?Updates to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications webpage . New funding announcements and application instructions for undergraduate (T34) training programs will be released in the coming months.?

Learn the impact these changes will have on NIGMS undergraduate training grant applications.?

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Upcoming Changes to NIH Applications for NIGMS Postdoctoral Training Grants

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is making a number of changes to the training application and peer review process for due dates?on or after?January 25, 2025. For details, visit the?Updates to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications webpage . NIH will release a new parent T32 funding announcement and application instructions this fall for postdoctoral training programs to use.?

Learn the impact these changes will have on NIGMS postdoctoral training grant applications.

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Upcoming Changes to NIH Applications for NIGMS Predoctoral Training Grants

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is making a number of changes to predoctoral training grant applications for due dates?on or after January 25, 2025. For details, visit the?Updates to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications webpage .

Learn the impact these changes will have on NIGMS predoctoral training grant applications.

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Also of Note:

• Biomedical Research Environment & Sponsored Programs Administration Development (BRE-SPAD) Program (UC2 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-24-268 )
• Notice of Change to Institutional Eligibility Criteria in PAR-24-041 “Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) Planning Grants (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)” (NOT-GM-25-004 )
• Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-24-265 )
• High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-24-264 )
• Limited Competition: Basic Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-24-326 )
• NIGMS Interest in Technology Development for Cryo-Electron Tomography (NOT-GM-25-002 )
• Innovation Corps (I-Corps) at NIH Program for NIH and CDC Translational Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PA-25-212 )
• Notice of Special Interest: Availability of Administrative Supplements for Childcare Costs for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Fellows (NOT-OD-25-009 )
• Notice of Special Interest: Research on the Health of Women of Underrepresented, Underserved, and Underreported (U3) Populations (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional) (NOT-OD-24-179 )
• Video ?from the Tribal Institutional Review Board Establishment and Enhancement webinar on October 15
• Save the date: NIGMS 2024 Stetten Lecture on November 20 (watch live or later on NIH Videocast )?

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