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Reminder and Update Concerning Non-Competing Grant Progress Reports

Historically, NIH reminded grantees about the submission of a progress report by mailing a pre-printed face page. In August 2002 NIH announced a modification of this business process and discontinued this mailing (see http://grants.nih.
gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-066.html).

Since that time, the NIH Office of Extramural Research has hosted a website of Non-competing Progress Report due date information (http://era.nih.gov/userreports/pr_due.cfm). Grantee officials are encouraged to review this list at least once a month. Several months of "due" information are in the query at all times and records drop off of the list as NIH receives the progress reports. New records are added on/around the 30th of each month.

For grantee institutions and principal investigators (PIs) registered in the NIH eRA Commons, the progress report due information is available in the Commons Status system. Commons-registered institutions and PIs also have access to pre-populated face pages via Status. For more information on the NIH Commons, see: https://commons.era.nih.gov/
commons/index.jsp

In an effort to improve the timely submission of non-competing progress reports, NIH recently implemented two separate e-mail reminders to the PI. An initial reminder is sent two months prior to the due date. Approximately two weeks after the due date, a follow-up reminder is sent for those progress reports that are overdue.

Progress reports should continue to be mailed directly to the NIH awarding Institute/Center. A list of Institute/Center mailing addresses for progress reports is found at: http://grants.nih. gov/grants/type5_mailing_addresses.htm.

Questions concerning the web query or access through the Commons should be addressed to the eRA Helpdesk: e-mail: Commons@od.nih.gov. Questions concerning submission of progress reports should be directed to the specific NIH Institute/Center. To read this full announcement, click here: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-054.html

Clarification of Tobacco Policy

To clarify the policy set forth in last month’s Research WebNotes (http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/research/
newsletter/editorials/0308.cfm), we are not permitting grant applications to tobacco companies or their affiliate foundations (see list below) as well as foreign equivalents such as Japan Tobacco, etc.

• American Tobacco
• British American Tobacco Company, Ltd
• Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
• Center for Indoor Air Research
• The Council for Tobacco Research USA, Inc.
• Dimon Incorporated
• Hill & Knowlton, Inc.
• Kraft
• Liggett & Brooke Group
• Liggett & Myers, Inc.
• Loews Corporation
• Lorillard Tobacco Co., Inc.
• Philip Morris (The Altria Group)
• Researchamerican Tobacco Corp.
• RJ Reynolds
• RJR Nabisco, Inc.
• Smokeless Tobacco Council
• Standard Commercial
• Star Scientific, Inc.
• The Tobacco Industry Research Committee
• The Tobacco Institute, Inc.
• United States Tobacco Company
• Universal Leaf Tobacco Co.
• Vector Group
  

Tilghman Traveling Fellowship

Established in 1976 by Dr. and Mrs. R. Carmichael Tilghman, this traveling fellowship is to be awarded annually to young members of the Medical Faculty to assist them during a sabbatical leave of up to one year to travel outside the Baltimore area to pursue new theories, methods and techniques in their chosen discipline. Both full and part-time members of the Medical Faculty are eligible for consideration. A maximum of $7,500 can be awarded each year to one or more applicants. For complete details, including application instructions, click here: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/
research/tilghman.html

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