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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On
December 5, the Office of Research hosted a public viewing of a National
Institutes of Health (NIH) videocast that provided training on the NIH electronic
proposal submission process. For those who were not able to attend this
event, the NIH has made the videocast available for viewing from their website
at <a
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=23558148&sid=1695959&m=249093&u=Atlantic2&s=http://era.nih.gov/training/esub_120506/"
title="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=23558148&sid=1695959&m=249093&u=Atlantic2&s=http://era.nih.gov/training/esub_120506/">http://era.nih.gov/training/esub_120506/</a>.
The announcement regarding NIH's transition to electronic proposal submission
can be at <a
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=23558148&sid=1695958&m=249093&u=Atlantic2&s=http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2006/oer-28.htm"
title="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=23558148&sid=1695958&m=249093&u=Atlantic2&s=http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2006/oer-28.htm">www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2006/oer-28.htm</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Beginning
February 5, 2007, the NIH will no longer accept paper applications for Research
Project (R01) grants. In addition, on this date NIH will also begin to
accept more than one principal investigator per application. For more
information about these issues, please refer to the News section of the Office
of Research webpage at http://or.ucr.edu.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Please
share this message broadly within your unit with those who are involved in the
preparation, routing and approval of NIH grant applications.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Bruce Morgan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Office of Research<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>x25535 - Phone<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>x24483 - Fax<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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