ASRM: NIH Announcements

Miscellaneous NIH Announcements

This Web page contains links to miscellaneous NIH announcements that ASRM felt were relevant enough to archive on the ASRM Web Site.

ASRM Bulletin: NIH Releases Draft Guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research (April 2009)
ASRM Press Release: ASRM Comments on NIH Stem Cell Guidelines (April 2009)
Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program (K12)(RFA-HD-09-026) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-09-026.html This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Women's Health (ORWH). The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is to solicit applications to continue to support a national program of mentored institutional career development programs for junior faculty who have recently completed postgraduate clinical training in obstetrics and gynecology, and are committed to an independent research career in women's reproductive health. The supervised research training will assist junior faculty in their transition into productive, physician scientists in areas related to obstetrics and gynecology and its subspecialties. The due date is July 28, 2009. (April 2009)
ASRM Bulletin: NIH Public Meeting on Expansion of the Clinical Trial Registry and Results Data Bank (April 2009)
ASRM Bulletin: NIH Releases More Information on Recovery Act Funding (April 2009)
ASRM Bulletin: NICHD Posts Information on Recovery Act Funding Opportunities (March 2009)
New NIH Policy on Resubmission (Amended) Applications (October 2008)
Financial Conflict of Interest Requirements for NIH Research Funding (September 2008)
Active Funding Opportunity Announcements: (More information can be found at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/foa/foa.cfm?select_doctype=PA%2FPAR#)
»PA-07-182: Vulvodynia-Systematic Epidemiologic, Etiologic or Therapeutic Studies (R01)(Parrott)
»PA-07-219: Fragile X Pre-Mutation and Ovarian Function (R01)(Taymans)
»PA-07-220: Fragile X Pre-mutation and Ovarian Function (R21)(Taymans)
»PA-07-445: Interdisciplinary Research on Implantation (R01)(Yoshinaga)
»PA-07-453: Americas Fellowship in Reproductive Sciences (F05) – December 8, 2008 and 2009 (Yoshinaga)
»PA-08-059: Role of Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Organ in Reproduction and Infertility (R01) (DePaolo)
»PA-08-060: Role of Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Organ in Reproduction and Infertility (R21) (DePaolo)
»PAR-08-10 -102: Leiomyomata Uteri: Basic Science, Translational and Clinical Research (R01) (Parrott) – May 20, 2009, 2010/SEP review
»PA-08-103: Adverse Outcomes of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (P01) (Tasca)
»PA-08-104: Adverse Outcomes of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (R01) (Tasca)
»PAR-08-10: Optimizing Technologies for the Preservation of Fertility (R21) (Lamar) – September 16, 2008/SEP Review
(July 2008)
News from NICHD (from the Spring 2008 ASRM News) (July 2008)
Program Announcement (PA) Title: PA-08-103 (P01) ; PA-08-104 (R01) Adverse Outcomes of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Receipt Date: Standard
Sponsor/Co-Sponsor(s): The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Purpose: This NICHD-wide Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigator-initiated applications designed to study the ways in which assisted reproductive technologies (ART) may directly affect eggs, sperm or preimplantation embryos that could, in turn, lead to adverse outcomes during fetal development, the perinatal period, childhood, adulthood or even subsequent generations. While most ART offspring appear to be healthy, there are reports of adverse outcomes. This FOA encourages research on human subjects and animal models that can include a wide variety of basic, clinical, behavioral and epidemiological approaches that link reproductive health to overall health and quality of life.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-104.html (June 2008)
Program Announcement: PA-08-059 (R01); PA-08-060 (R21) Role of Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Organ in Reproduction and Infertility– standard receipt dates
The National Institute on Child Health and Human Development is interested in stimulating research to better understand the role of adipose tissue in the normal physiological regulation of reproduction, to discern its possible role in the etiology of diseases and disorders that impact fertility, and to probe its potential importance in different racial/ethnic prevalence rates of certain reproductive disorders. Examples of possible projects in response to the initiative:
How sex steroids modulate adipose tissue biology with a focus on sex and gender-based differences in the synthesis and secretion of adipokines that could impact fertility status
The role of adipose tissue in mediating the effects of changed energy status (i.e., over/under nutrition, exercise, etc.) on reproduction; The role of adipose tissue dysfunction in the genesis of human reproductive diseases and disorders; An examination of possible racial/ethnic differences in adipocyte biology and pathobiology that could account for an increased incidence of fertility problems in some minority populations
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-059.html (June 2008)
News from NICHD (from the Winter 2008 ASRM News) (April 2008)
ASRM Bulletin: President’s Budget For Fiscal Year 2009 Released; Many Cuts, A Few Increases For Health-Related Programs (February 2008)
ASRM Bulletin: NIH to Sponsor Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture Training Course March 4-13 in Orange, California (January 2008)
NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (available every year)
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NIH Pelvic Pain/Endometriosis Study (June 2003)

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