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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The
National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that its eRA Commons,
eSubmission, and Internet Assisted Review (IAR) applications will be
unavailable from 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Saturday, July 21, 2007,
through 12:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, July 22 for a system upgrade<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>. </span></b>During this downtime, there may be a delay
in receiving a response from NIH to an electronic submission, as electronically
submitted applications will be held at Grants.gov for later processing by NIH
following the outage period. <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'>For
further information, contact the eRA Helpdesk at (301) 402-7469 or <a
href="http://ithelpdesk.nih.gov/eRA/" target="_blank"
title="blocked::http://ithelpdesk.nih.gov/eRA/ blocked::http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=23558148&sid=2541489&m=337121&u=Atlantic2&s=http://ithelpdesk.nih.gov/eRA/">http://ithelpdesk.nih.gov/eRA/</a>
or visit <a
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=23558148&sid=2541490&m=337121&u=Atlantic2&s=http://www.reportonresearchcompliance.com/FedRef/eRAServiceAdvisoryScheduled.html"
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bruce Morgan</span><o:p></o:p></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>
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