Seeking Your Ideas on the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Research
In less than a year, we have learned much about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease. The NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Research, released last July, has helped us get to this point. The Plan prioritizes conducting fundamental research; advancing diagnostics, treatments and prevention strategies; and redressing poor COVID-19 outcomes in health disparity and vulnerable populations. Cutting across all of these priorities is an emphasis on the importance of scientific collaboration, the research workforce, and data science as keys to the response.
From shifting public health needs to the unprecedented pace of biomedical dis...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 29, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike COVID 19 Request For Information (RFI) strategic plan Source Type: funding
Share Your Ideas to Foster Research Integrity and the Responsible Conduct of Research
We all have a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of biomedical research. It is critically important to do so, after all, so the public can trust the resulting scientific findings. These posts from 2020, 2019, and 2018 highlight a few ways NIH works toward this goal of an environment promoting integrity and discouraging misconduct (check out this NIH All About Grants podcast for more on this).
Now it’s your turn to share some ideas. Our colleagues with the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI) recently published a Request for Information seeking your input. The feedback they receive will be invaluable for condu...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 22, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Request For Information (RFI) Research integrity Source Type: funding
Developing a Culture of Safety in Biomedical Research Training
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is committed to supporting safety in the nation’s biomedical research and training environments. Last April, we shared with you resources for enhancing lab safety in biomedical research training environments. Now, in a Perspective in the current issue of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), we focus on strategies for improving laboratory safety. Some of these strategies are also applicable to other forms of safety including the prevention of harassment, intimidation, and discrimination. We frame the problem of laboratory safety using a number of recent examples ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 15, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Michelle Bond, Alison Gammie, and Jon Lorsch Tags: blog Open Mike lab safety NIGMS Training Source Type: funding
Welcome the New RePORT and RePORTER Tools!
Ten years ago, NIH launched the RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) website to serve as a one-stop shop for reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities. Well, drum roll please, a new and modernized RePORT site as well as a faster and easier to use NIH RePORTER have now arrived.
The updated RePORT site strives to meet the needs of today’s users based on feedback received over the years. It is easier, simpler, and quicker to access the same information you have come to rely upon. Right from the homepage, for instance, you can jump into data with interactive charts that connect out to NIH Data Bo...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 13, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike ExPORTER Funding data NIH Data Book RePORT RePORTER Source Type: funding
T-21 Days Left Until the NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration
As everything has gone virtual these days, so do we. Join us from your favorite chair, at your favorite table, and in your favorite room for the 2020 NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration at the end of October.
Some things will remain the same…
This event is still geared towards administrators, early stage investigators, graduate students, and others new to working with the NIH grants process. Pros will be delighted to hear as well that there will still be in-depth sessions to learn more about the ins and outs of grants policies, processes and programs.
…while some things will be different.
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Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike conference NIH Regional Seminar virtual seminar Source Type: funding
Encouraging Participation in Upcoming NIH Surveys to Identify Impacts of COVID-19 on Extramural Research
NIH has been working diligently to support the extramural research community since the pandemic began in March. We are now preparing to reach out with surveys to gather data on how COVID-19 is impacting our extramural researchers and their institutions. If you receive such a survey, we hope that you will take the time to provide us with your perspective. The results of the surveys will be extremely valuable to inform policy and program decisions as NIH seeks to identify ways to continue to support the biomedical research enterprise as we move forward.
We will be launching two surveys. The first is the NIH Impact of COVID...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: funding
More Thoughts on Cyber Safety and NIH-Funded Research
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. In recognition, we are reminding our extramural research community about the importance of prioritizing cybersafety across all functions of your organization and understanding how important it is to practice cyber-safe behaviors every day. As we have discussed in previous posts here and here, our current virtual environment makes it more important than ever that we stay vigilant and maintain strong cybersecurity protocols.
In this post, we would like to remind you of some of the important cybersecurity policies that apply to your NIH-supported research. These...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 1, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike cybersecurity Source Type: funding
Case Study in Review Integrity: Abuse of Power
A series to raise
awareness, encourage dialog and inspire creative problem solving for challenges
in maintaining integrity in peer review.
What would you do
if, as the Dean of Research at a major university, a group of students,
postdocs, and junior faculty reported that they had been pressured into writing
reviewer critiques for a senior faculty member?
We were so impressed
by the careful handling of just such a situation by an institutional official
recently that we wanted to share this story with you (we’ve changed details and
fictionalized names).
Dr. Lee, Dean of Research at a major research university, rec...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - September 2, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Confidentiality Peer review Source Type: funding
NIH Helps Small Businesses Change the World
Did you know that
the NIH’s small business programs (SBIR and STTR) invest over 1 billion dollars into
life science and healthcare companies each year? The newly-created Small business
Education and Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) office provides grantees with many of the
valuable entrepreneurship and commercialization services we have discussed in previous blogs to help them thrive.
As our small business program has grown, we
have seen early ideas transform into improved patient access to technologies.
To celebrate these successes, the NIH has launched a new interactive mapping tool thatfeatures many of the amazi...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - August 13, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike SBIR small business Source Type: funding
Institute and Center Award Rates and Funding Disparities
In 2011, Ginther et al. first demonstrated that African American and Black applicants to the National Institutes of Health received grant awards at a lower rate than their white counterparts (Ginther 2011). Since then, multiple studies have reproduced and extended this finding (Ginther 2011; Ginther 2016; Hoppe 2019; Erosheva 2020). Recently we reported that African American and Black (AAB) PIs are more likely to propose research on topics that are less likely to be funded (Hoppe 2019). We found that topic choice has little or no effect on whether an application is chosen for discussion, but after consideri...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - August 12, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Funding data Source Type: funding
Leveraging Standardized Clinical Data to Advance Discovery
Guest blog post authored by:
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director, National Library of Medicine, NIHSusan Gregurick, PhD, Associate Director for Data Science, NIH; Director of the NIH Office of Data Science StrategyTeresa Zayas Cabán, PhD, Chief Scientist, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Coordinator, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Acceleration, National Library of Medicine, NIHSteven Posnack, M.S., M.H.S., Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Opportunit...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - July 31, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Guest Blog Tags: blog Open Mike 21st century cures Data sharing USCDI Source Type: funding
An Early Look at Applications Submitted During the Pandemic
It has been four months since the COVID-19
pandemic shuttered
laboratories and clinical studies across the country and the world. On April 10, only a few weeks into the
pandemic, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) published
a report on the “Effects of COVID-19 on the Federal
Research and Development Enterprise.”
The report described the consequences of social distancing and other
pandemic mitigation measures. These
consequences included laboratory closures, de-prioritized projects, cancellation
of meetings and conferences, loss of revenue, disrupted personnel processes
(e.g. graduation, promotio...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - July 28, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike coronavirus COVID-19 Funding data Source Type: funding
Useful Flexibilities for Animal Care and Use Programs to Comply with the PHS Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As we continue
to address the effects of COVID-19 and as some states and institutions are
considering reopening, we would like to share some administrative flexibilities
that NIH is providing to research institutions with laboratory animal programs.
These flexibilities are
meant to assure personnel safety and animal welfare while enabling research
personnel to prioritize and preserve research efforts. Some of these can be
useful in reducing administrative burden, too.
My colleagues
with the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), Drs. Catharine Pritchard, Nicolette Petervary, and
Neera Gopee, described these ad...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - July 20, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Animal Welfare COVID-19 OLAW Source Type: funding
Addressing Foreign Interference and Associated Risks to the Integrity of Biomedical Research, and How You Can Help
On Tuesday, June 23, Dr. Kelvin Drogemeier,
the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), gave a presentation to the Federal
Demonstration Partnership (FDP) on “Enhancing the Security and Integrity of
America’s Research Enterprise.” Dr.
Drogemeier articulated five “key takeaway” messages:
The integrity of our research enterprise rests upon core
principles and values, including transparency, honesty, accountability, objectivity,
respect, freedom of inquiry, reciprocity, and merit-based competition;Principled international collaboration and foreign contributions
are critical to our su...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - July 8, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike other support Research integrity Source Type: funding
Extramural Investments in Research: FY 2019 By the Numbers
In times of stress and uncertainty, such as what we are all experiencing now, seeing something different may be welcome. With that in mind, we are taking a few moments to continue our annual tradition spotlighting NIH’s research investments, grant funding, and success rates from the previous fiscal year (FY). You can read these posts from FY 2018, FY 2017, and FY 2016 as well as information on the NIH Data Book for more.
NIH’s total budget in FY
2019 was $39.2 billion (see page 76 of the FY 2021 Congressional
Justification overview
for more). Of that appropriation, $29.466 billion was awarded to 55,012 new and...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Funding data FY 2019 Success Rate Source Type: funding
