Looking for Funding Opportunities? Check out the revised New Funding Opportunities page. It is updated regularly with opportunities from the American Heart Association, Department of Defense (DOD) office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Another resource for searching for funding opportunities is SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network), which has more than 40,000 opportunities from more than 10,000 global sponsors. To access this system, log into LLeRA (https://era.llu.edu/) and click on the 'Find Funding' at the top of the page. Links to training videos for how to use the system are in the upper right corner of the SPIN page. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And now, moving forward . . . Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. -- Zora Neale Hurston

NIH will be transitioning to updated electronic application forms packages.

As the academic year comes to a close, a number of students and faculty develop plans for travel and research abroad.

The NIH has released an informative fact sheet on how the sequestration will impact its FY13 operating plans and the effect this will have on medical research and the scientific workforce.