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https://grants.nih.gov/grants/how-to-apply-application-guide/due-dates-and-submission-policies/submission-policies.htm#ddohw

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Due Dates on Holidays/Weekends/NIH Office Closures
When a postmark/submission date falls on a weekend, Federal holiday , or Washington, DC area Federal office closure (NOT-OD-17-041), the application deadline is automatically extended to the next business day.
Note: NIH FOAs are posted with a short grace period which allows applications to be submitted even if the submission deadline shifts beyond the expiration date of the FOA. As always, applicants must check the eRA Commons to view their application and ensure it has successfully made it to NIH.
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https://giving.yale.edu/priorities/faculty-and-research-support

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Endowed chairs enable Yale to attract outstanding academic talent to the faculty. Because the endowment secures the position itself, it enables Yale to appoint a distinguished professor whenever a position becomes vacant, building a tradition of leadership in the selected discipline. The endowed chair is widely recognized as the most prestigious honor a university can bestow on an accomplished faculty member.
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http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/U24-HG009446-02

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/upshot/why-the-medical-research-grant-system-could-be-costing-us-great-ideas.html

Rather prescient
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober-2017/ivy-league-endowments-under-fire/

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-17-110.html

NIH awards to test ways to store, access, share, and compute on biomedical data in the cloud
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-awards-test-ways-store-access-share-compute-biomedical-data-cloud

Why these powerful health care gurus left the East Coast for California https://www.StatNews.com/2017/11/06/california-startup-culture/ Quotes T Insel, ex-director of NIMH: “What I was doing was providing lots of additional funding to people whose major goal was to get a paper in Nature & get tenure.”

““What I was doing was providing lots of additional funding to people whose major goal was to get a paper in Nature and get tenure.” Dr. Tom Insel, Mindstrong Health co-founder”

https://commonfund.nih.gov/HuBMAP

.@Genome_Gov Extramural Grant Portfolio
https://www.Genome.Gov/27569006/july-6-2017-the-nhgri-extramural-grant-portfolio-using-different-approaches-to-fund-genomics-research Nice grid divides programs into PI-initiated/consortia & RFA-solicited v not