2012 News Flashes
The following is an archive of listserv announcements, or "News Flashes" sent by the Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program to FRIENDS-OF-NCI-EGRP listserv subscribers. These occasional announcements communicate information about funding opportunities related to cancer epidemiology, grantsmanship issues, research resources, and other relevant news.
News Flashes Sorted by Topic (Sort by Date)
Funding Opportunities
- New NIH Common Fund Requests for Applications for Human Microbiome Project and Genotype-Tissue Project – 12/6/2012
- Applications Requesting Support for Consortia Meetings Between January and July 2013 Due by December 31, 2012 – 11/28/2012
- NCI Reissues RFAs for Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies Program – 11/14/2012
- NCI Announces Eight RFAs on Provocative Questions – 10/2/2012
- Funding Opportunities Available for Development of Informatics Technology – 9/27/2012
- NIH Issues Request for Applications for U.S.-China Program for Biomedical Collaborative Research – 4/18/2012
- Final Round of Applications for Research on Climate Change and Health Due May 24, 2012 – 4/16/2012
- NCI Issues Omnibus R03 and R21 Funding Opportunity Announcements – 4/11/2012
- Funding Opportunities Available Through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute – 4/3/2012
- New Deadline Set for Requesting Consortia Meeting Support, Guidelines Revised – 3/26/2012
- Funding Opportunities for Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program – 3/9/2012
- Reissuance of Program Announcements for Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Applications – 3/2/2012
- NIH Announces Two RFAs for Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory – 2/2/2012
- Call for Applications for Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health – 1/24/2012
Grantsmanship
- New NIH Guidance on Applications for Research Involving Human Subjects – 8/27/2012
- 8 Weeks Advance Notice Required by Our Division for Submission of Large-budget Epidemiology Grant Applications – 7/18/2012
- Reminder: 8 Weeks Advance Notice Required by Our Division for Submission of Large-Budget Epidemiology Grant Applications – 3/8/2012
- New NIH Salary Limitations Set on Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts – 2/3/2012
Employment Opportunities
- Cancer Research Training Award Fellow Sought for Establishing a Database of Molecular Analysis Methods for Cancer Epidemiology – 12/20/2012
- Cancer Research Training Award Fellow Sought for Environmental Epidemiology – 12/11/2012
- Bioethicist Sought for Health Sciences Specialist Position Focused on Data Access and Data Sharing – 9/10/2012
- Cancer Research Training Award Fellow Sought for Environmental Epidemiology – 6/6/2012
- Bioethicist Sought for Position Focused on Data Access and Data Sharing – 4/20/2012
- Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program Seeks Health Sciences Specialist – 2/15/2012
- Employment Opportunities in Host Susceptibility Factors Branch – 1/20/2012
Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops
- Registration Still Open for Online Participation in Workshop on Dec. 12-13: Trends in 21st Century Epidemiology – 12/3/2012
- Archived Videocast Available for NCI Cohort Consortium – 11/27/2012
- Registration and Poster Abstract Submission Re-opened for Scientific Meeting on Isocyanates and Health – 11/26/2012
- EGRP Invites Researchers to Register for the Trends in 21st Century Epidemiology Workshop on December 12-13 – 11/7/2012
- NIH Sponsors Symposium on Statistics in Biomedical Research – 9/28/2012
- Invitation to Register for Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program Annual Meeting and Submit Poster Session Abstracts – 9/21/2012
- Registration Open for NCI Cohort Consortium Symposium – 8/9/2012
- Registration Open for Think Tank on Use of Metabolomics in Population-based Research – 8/2/2012
- Registration Open for Workshop on Birth Defects and Cancer: The Intersection of Genes and Prenatal Exposures – 7/26/2012
- EGRP Invites Researchers to Shape the Future of Cancer Epidemiology – 6/5/2012
- Staff From Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences Presenting at AACR – 3/27/2012
- Registration Open for Conference on Global Prostate Cancer Disparities in Black Men; Abstract Submissions Due April 6, 2012 – 3/23/2012
Requests for Information
- SEER Residual Tissue Repository Program Seeks Feedback – 10/1/2012
- Public Comment Sought on Genetic Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer – 3/14/2012
Research Resources
- NCI-Sponsored Catalogue of Genetic Simulation Software Now Available – 12/10/2012
- Proposals to Use Biospecimens from Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial Due January 15, 2013 – 12/5/2012
- Public Release of Standard Operating Procedures for Genotype-Tissue Expression Project – 9/12/2012
- NIH Resource for Linking Genes, Environmental Exposure, and Disease – 9/11/2012
- Changes to Availability of Social Security Administration's Death Master File Data – 5/24/2012
- Proposals Invited To Use Biospecimens from Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial – 5/21/2012
Other
- NCI Epidemiology Twitter Account Launched – 11/30/2012
- EGRP Seeks Comments on Using Translational Epidemiology to Integrate Knowledge – 10/16/2012
- Comments Sought on Using Translational Epidemiology to Bridge Evidence Gaps in Cancer Care Continuum – 9/27/2012
- Blog Post Invites Comments on the Evolution of Cohorts in the Study of Cancer and Other Diseases – 8/28/2012
- Comments Sought on Incentivizing Innovation in Genetic Epidemiology – 8/10/2012
- New Blog Post Invites Comments on Integration of New Technologies Into Cancer Epidemiology – 7/25/2012
- Competition Announced for Sensors that Detect Air Pollution and Physiological Response – 6/8/2012
- EGRP Highlights 2011 Grantee Publications – 5/3/2012
- New Blog Post on Mitochondrial Genomics and Cancer Risk – 5/1/2012
- New Blog Post on Assessing Whether Chronic Disease Patients are at Higher Risk of Cancer – 4/18/2012
- EGRP Initiates Consortia Scientist Exchange Program – 4/12/2012
- EGRP Blog Post on Leveraging Biospecimen Resources for Cancer Research – 3/30/2012
- Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program Launches Blog – 3/16/2012