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New to the NIH Grants Process?
NIH Announces 2017 NIH Regional Seminar
Locations in New Orleans, LA and
Baltimore, MD
Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-026
Key Dates
Release Date: December 15, 2016
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Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose
If you are new to working with the NIH grants process, perhaps have a little experience but want to learn more, or
know someone who could benefit from a unique opportunity to hear the latest grants process and policy information
directly from NIH & HHS – then spread the news, mark your calendars, and plan to attend one of our two annual
NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration in 2017. Registration for both seminars
will open in January and these seminars usually reach capacity weeks before the seminar dates…so start planning
now!
New Orleans, Louisiana:
Wednesday, May 3, 2017: Optional Pre-Seminar Workshops
Thursday-Friday, May 4-5, 2017: 2-Day Seminar
Venue and Seminar Hotel: New Orleans Marriott Seminar & Workshop Registration: Available in January 2017
Room Reservations: Special reduced rate information is now available on the New Orleans Seminar’s Hotel/Travel
Web Page.
Baltimore, Maryland:
Wednesday, October 25, 2017: Optional Pre-Seminar Workshops
Thursday-Friday, October 26-27, 2017: 2-Day Seminar
Venue and Seminar Hotel: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel
Seminar & Workshop Registration: Available in January 2017
Room Reservations: Special reduced rate information will be available soon on the Baltimore Seminar’s Hotel/
Travel Web Page.
What does the 2-day seminar offer?
The NIH Regional Seminar offers a comprehensive program for the NIH
extramural community about the NIH grants process and related policies,
including such topics as Fundamentals of the NIH, compliance, peer review,
grant writing for success, pre-award and post-award issues for administrators
and investigators, animal and human subject research, and how to interact
electronically with NIH. In addition to a wide variety of sessions for research
administrators, a New Investigators’ track provides step-by-step guidance on
mapping your career and understanding the funding process. To add to the
array of choices, special interest sessions are provided on topics like
contracts, public access, rigor and reproducibility, research integrity, data
sharing, clinicaltrials.gov, foreign collaborations, and so much more. This
year, a live, mock study section meeting is added to the agenda line-up in order to help attendees gain a better
understanding of how a study section meeting runs.
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