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The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society hosted their fourth annual "Meet the Researchers Day" last Thursday.

Put on your walking shoes and join the Gill Heart Institute cardiologist Dr. Alison Bailey for the 2015 Walk with a Doc season. From April through August, the program will meet twice a month on Thursdays for a 30 minute walk at the 好色先生 Arboretum.

New NIH Biosketch Format 鈥� Required on May 25 
The new five-page biosketch format is required for all NIH proposals due on or after May 25, 2015. To help you get ready for this change, the Proposal Development Office invites 好色先生 staff and faculty to a workshop --

NIH has recently updated their website that provides context for the NIH Peer Review Process.  With the contributions of NIH staff, the site offers new and improved content.  The goal of the site is to connect the What, When, Why, and How of the NIH Peer Review.   This site鈥檚 primary audience is the NIH reviewer.  The site provides information to better understand the 鈥渄o鈥檚 and don鈥檛s鈥� of each step of the review process including links to the eRA video tutorial series. 

It鈥檚 a Wonderful Time of Year to Spring Clean! 

                         

Could your ideas have an impact on the health or physical activity of North Americans?

Are you seeking additional funding for your research?

[From the NIH website]

Reminder: NIH Policy on Application Compliance

Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-095

Key Dates
Release Date: April 15, 2015 

Related Announcements
None    

Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Purpose

The purpose of this notice is to remind applicants, both investigators and grants office officials, that to be fair to all concerned the NIH needs to consistently apply standards for application compliance.

The Vilcek Foundation is seeking applicants for the 2016 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.  They are accepting applications from young, foreign-born researchers age 38 and under from now through June 15, 2015.  Three winners will each receive a $50,000 unrestricted cash prize and will be honored at an awards ceremony in New York City in April 2016.

Complete eligibility requirements and online application can be found on Vilcek.org. 

Congratulations to the following COM labs for receiving the Better Bio Awards from the Department of Biological Safety. These awards are given to labs for setting a shining example of lab housekeeping and maintanence. Estus Lab (Sanders Brown) Nelson Lab (Sanders Brown) Murphy Lab (Sanders Brown) Rangnekar Lab (Combs) Plattner Lab (Combs) Thibault Lab (Med Sci)

The 好色先生 Travel policy was updated in January. Changes included the following language: Failure to submit a valid cost comparison may result in your reimbursement being reduced to the historical lowest airfare in the market. Therefore, there is no longer a need to submit an exception request when there is not a valid cost comparison. Our Director of 好色先生 Travel Program has the ability to pull up historical fares and will make the determination on the amount to reimburse.

[from the NIH website]

Notice of Potential Delays to NIH Issuing Awards in May 2015

Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-088

Key Dates
Release Date:   April 9, 2015

Related Announcements
None    

Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Purpose

A Fayette County high school student has been named a finalist for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her work in a 好色先生 lab run by Dr. Greg Bix and Dr. Justin Fraser. Ishi Aron, a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, won first place in the Biomedical and Health Sciences division at the Kentucky State Science Fair on March 28.

We are pleased to announce that the SRAS is fully staffed.  

[From NIH website]

Publication of the Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement (Rev. 3/31/2015)

Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-087

What if a failed leukemia drug could reduce the risk of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease? A team at the University of Kentucky recently led an effort to investigate this hypothesis. Their results were published today in the journal, Human Molecular Genetics. The 好色先生 researchers, led by Steve Estus at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, study a genetic variant in a gene called CD33 that reduces the risk of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease. The Estus group recently published findings suggesting that this variant promotes production of a truncated form of the CD33 protein that lacks a putative functional domain.

Part of the submission requirements for NIH Shared Instrumentation and High End Instrumentation Grant Programs is an institutional letter of support.   This letter includes detailed supporting documentation and mulitple level approvals.  Therefore, the VPR office along with PDO are requesting notification now from researchers who may be considering the submission of this type of grant.  The proposals are due to NIH on May 29, 2015.  

Questions - Annette Evans at 257-1663.

Reminder: NIH and AHRQ Biosketch Requirements for Due Dates On or After May 25, 2015

Photos and contact information are now included on the SRAS website for several new staff that have joined us recently.    

Julie Elliott started as a Reconciler on October 1, 2014.  She has over 20 years of experience in insurance collections and mortgage banking.  She already has a regular group of departments she is supporting.