Cancer Imaging Program

Newsletter No. 113 - March 2009

Editor's Note: The NOTICES section is first because that is where the exciting announcements are. Also, first and foremost, if you want to respond to many of the ARRA announcements, you must have a funded grant, even if it is in no-cost extension.
The NCI, as of now, is not ready to announce institute plans. Please consult, and keep consulting, http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html to see what the various ICs are planning.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements
(NOT-OD-09-056)
Application Due Date: By IC direction
The NIH announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH Research Grants to request administrative supplements for the purpose accelerating the tempo of scientific research on active grants. See http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html for each IC's plans and due dates.
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-056.html

NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications (NOT-OD-09-058)
Application Due Date: April 21, 2009
The NIH announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH-supported research project grants (including SBIR and STTR) to submit revision applications (formerly termed competitive supplements) to support a significant expansion of the scope or research protocol of approved and funded projects. See http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html for each IC's plans.
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-058.html

NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators (NOT-OD-09-060)
Application Due Date: By IC direction
The NIH announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH Research Grants to request administrative supplements for the purpose of promoting job creation, economic development, and accelerating the pace and achievement of scientific research. These supplements will also encourage students to seriously pursue research careers in the health related sciences, as well as provide elementary, middle school, and high school teachers, community college faculty, and faculty from non-research intensive institutions with short term research experiences in NIH-funded laboratories. See http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html for each IC's plans and due dates.
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-060.html

NOTICES

NIH Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards - FY 2009 (NOT-OD-09-066)
This Notice provides guidance about the NIH Fiscal Operations Plan for FY2009 and it implements the FY 2009-enacted Omnibus appropriation that provided NIH with $ 30.4 billions or 3 percent more than FY 2008 funding.
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-066.html

CIP Announcements
CIP DCIDE PROGRAM
The Cancer Imaging Program of the NCIrequests submissions for its Development of Clinical Imaging Drugs and Enhancers (DCIDE) initiative. The goal is the rapid movement of promising, novel cancer imaging enhancers or molecular probes from the laboratory to proof-of-principle clinical trials. See the web site for details.
URL:http://imaging.cancer.gov/programsandresources/specializedinitiatives/dcide

GUEST AUTHOR OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NIH MICAD DATABASE
The Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database (MICAD) program has been developed as a key component of the NIH Molecular Imaging Roadmap to provide freely accessible online scientific information on in vivo molecular imaging and contrast agents. To accelerate expansion of the database to include all published agents, the MICAD program has implemented a procedure for members of the imaging community to write and submit entries (chapters) as guest authors to the database. All members of the imaging community are encouraged to consider this guest author opportunities. For further information, please contact the MICAD staff at micad@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Individual guest authors will be provide with detailed instructions, style guidelines, and a chapter template. The name of the contributing author(s) will be acknowledged and included in the MICAD online publication.
URL: http://micad.nih.gov
URL: http://bookshelf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bookres.fcgi/micad/infoguest.html)

Meetings

In Vivo Small Animal Imaging Workshop
March 23-25 2009, Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging, University of California Davis, CA
URL: http://imaging.bme.ucdavis.edu/events.html

2009 NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration (NOT-OD-09-012)
The 2-day seminar provides information about the NIH funding process, from opportunity identification and application preparation through post award administration. Presentations will be targeted towards research administrators, new investigators, post docs and trainees. Opportunities for informal interactions between seminar participants and NIH grants management, program, policy, and review staff are incorporated into the program. NIH electronic research administration (eRA) computer workshops are offered on a day adjacent to the two day seminar.
April 16-17, 2009 - Atlanta, Georgia.
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-012.html

17th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
April 18-24, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii
URL: http://www.ismrm.org/09/

Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging Science
Vanderbilt, June 3-5, 2009, Vanderbilt University Student Life Center, Nashville, TN
URL: http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?i=ab073133-0171-4c65-9108-27ea938f44bd

SIIM 2009 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine
June 4-7, 2009, Charlotte, NC
URL: http://www.scarnet.org/index.cfm?id=4324

Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization
Dedicated to the memory of Robert F Wagner (1938-2008)
June 10-12, 2009, Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge, Arlington, VA
URL: http://uitc-symposium.org/

56th Annual Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting
June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Ontario Canada
URL: http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=7878&RPID=1977
Grantsmanship in an Era of Change, 4:30 - 6 PM June 13
NCI Cancer Imaging Program, Booth 132 on Publishers' Row56th Annual Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting
June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Ontario Canada
URL: http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=7878&RPID=1977

2009 NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration (NOT-OD-09-012)
The 2-day seminar provides information about the NIH funding process, from opportunity identification and application preparation through post award administration. Presentations will be targeted towards research administrators, new investigators, post docs and trainees. Opportunities for informal interactions between seminar participants and NIH grants management, program, policy, and review staff are incorporated into the program. NIH electronic research administration (eRA) computer workshops are offered on a day adjacent to the two day seminar.
June 25-26, 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada.
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-012.html

11th Annual NIH SBIR/STTR Conference
"Transforming Medicine Through Innovation," June 30 - July 1, 2008, Omaha, Nebraska
URL: http://nbdc.unomaha.edu/SBIR/NIHconference/home.htm#
URL for NIH Guide Notice: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-063.html

18th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences
July 12-17, 2009, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
URL: http://www.isrs18.com/

51st American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting
July 26-30, 2009, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
URL: http://www.aapm.org/meetings/09AM/

Imaging in 2020
September 13-17, 2009, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
URL: http://www.imagingin2020.com/

World Molecular Imaging Congress
September 23 - 26, 2009, Montreal, Quebec Canada
URL: http://www.wmicmeeting.org/dev/