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# January 2017 

# 								New Video for NIH Basic Research Applicants and Reviewers							

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The NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and senior staff from CSR, the Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the National Cancer Institute joined forces to produce a webinar. Their goal was to emphasize NIH’s commitment to basic research and to help those who submit and review basic research grant applications to do their best.

View this video via CSR’s Webinar Web page. 

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# 								Congressional Support for NIH							

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This past December, Republicans and Democrats came together in a welcomed bipartisan effort to pass the 21st Century Cures Act. This act includes many provisions that will have significant impact on health programs and research coordinated by the states, FDA and NIH.
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# 								Top 5 Things SROs Wish Reviewers Would Do							

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Beyond sending everyone good wishes for 2017, we want to share what we heard when we asked our Scientific Review Officers what they wished their reviewers would do. Thankfully, most reviewers do the top five. But we are sharing them in the hope we can help keep NIH peer review humming in 2017.
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# 								8 Ways to Successfully Navigate NIH Peer Review Videos							

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CSR just posted the videos from two recent briefings for R01 and Fellowship applicants. These videos cover the 8 Ways to Successfully Navigate NIH Peer Review and get a grant. The videos also include a session during which NIH and CSR experts answered questions from R01 and Fellowship applicants.

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# 								Simplification of the Vertebrate Animals Section							

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Since last January, the requirements of the Vertebrate Animals Section (VAS) of grant applications and cooperative agreements have been simplified. As people continue to adjust, we thought we would summarize the changes.
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# 								SRO Helps Advance Peer Review in Indonesia							

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Dr. David Winter thought it was a long shot. But it was one worth going for. The State Department was seeking someone with a biomedical research background and experience in both program management and scientific review to help the new Indonesian Science Fund finish setting up a new grants program. It needed to build a peer review system from scratch. 
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