The Interstellar Initiative

The New York Academy of Sciences, along with The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, will hold a two-day networking conference in June in New York City and they want YOU.

Maybe. Attendance is by invitation only as this is a mentor-mentee matchup opportunity. NYAS is looking for Early Career Investigators in four broad categories: 1) Clinical Research; 2) Life Science; 3) Physical Science; and 4) Technology. 2018's event has two major interest themes of Cancer and Neuroscience, and will also focus on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in medicine.

Please see the full announcement for more information on the event and eligibility criteria: https://www.nyas.org/events/2018/the-interstellar-initiative/. If you are interested and eligible, the application portal can also be found at that link. Applications are due by 11:59pm on April 2nd.

NIH regional seminar on program funding and grants

NIH announces Early Registration rates for a May 2018 regional seminar on program funding and grants administration for researchers or administrators who want to learn more about NIH, talk to colleagues from the area, and speak with NIH personnel. The two-day seminar will be held May 2nd to 4th, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington DC. Registration is open now and early bird rates are available until December 15th. There are also full and half-day workshops available.

Act FAST! NIH regional seminars sell out very quickly.

NIH's Next Generation Researchers initiative

As of August 31, 2017, the National Institutes of Health has implemented new procedures to better support early stage and early established investigators called the Next Generation Researchers Initiative. Early state investigators (ESI) are those who are within 10 years of their terminal research degree or the end of their post-graduate clinical training, who have not received a "substantial" NIH award yet. (For a list of smaller NIH grants that an investigator can hold, and still be considered early stage, click here.) An early established investigator (EEI) is within 10 years of receiving their first substantial NIH award as an early stage investigator. Both classes of investigator will be given priority, and NIH's goal is to award 200 more ESI and 200 more EEI awards this fiscal year than last year. Learn more about this initiative here: NOT-OD-17-101.