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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has pushed back the date of the mandatory
electronic application submission of the traditional research (R01) mechanism
and all subsequent mechanisms. The new submission date is February 1,
2007. NIH hopes to learn more from additional electronic submission
cycles and to coordinate the electronic submission initiative with the multiple
principal investigator initiative. To view the complete announcement, <a
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=23558148&sid=913011&m=157805&u=Atlantic2&s=http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-035.html"
title="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=23558148&sid=913011&m=157805&u=Atlantic2&s=http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-035.html">http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-035.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bruce Morgan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Assistant
Vice Chancellor for Research<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Office
of Research</span></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
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