Council News Vol. 7, no. 2

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try-supported clinical trials in
this key scientific area.
To make the award process as
timely as possible, reviewers will
use NIAID's electronic initial
review system to review applications and enter critiques and
scores into a secure Web server.
At about the seventh week of
the process, SRG members will
gain access to each other's reviews and view each other's
comments online.
Then, the application will be
discussed and voted on during a
monthly conference call.
Within the next two weeks,
summary statements will be
ready, and all other administrative requirements will be completed during weeks 10 to 13.
At that point, applicants in the
fundable range will send NIH all
necessary materials, expedited
Council review will take place,
and the Institute will make the
awards.
You can find the RFA on the
Web at http://www.nih.gov/
grants/guide/rfa-files/RFAAI-98-006.html.
Wide NIH interest
With its electronic review systems in place, NIAID is already
beginning to recruit SRG members.
Institutes that do not have
expedited Council review are
developing procedures to do so.
The initiative is being cosponsored by the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute;
National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal and Skin

Diseases; National Institute of
Diabetes and
Digestive and
Kidney Diseases;
National Institute
of Neurological
Disorders and
Stroke; and the
NIH Office of
Research on
Women's Health.

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with applicants by
September; the
first applications are scheduled
to arrive in October for awards
in January 1999.
This fall, CSR's AIDS study
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features of the TMP electronic
peer review trial.
We will provide more information on that effort in the September issue of this newsletter.

Hyperaccelerated Review RFA-Key
Features
Application page limit-10 pages plus references for
the science portion.
IRB approval of mechanistic studies and core trial
-required for award but not application.
Agreement of PI and sponsor of core clinical trial
-required of applicant and institution.
Support levels-Limited to $160,000 per year for
direct costs except by permission.
Types of projects-Both pilot or feasibility and
definitive projects will be eligible.
Amended applications-By invitation only (limited to
those with minor problems; will be reviewed and
voted on at next monthly conference call).