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Highlights from June’s Advisory Council Meeting

NIAID Acting Director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss discussed administrative, budget, and legislative updates, as well as recent scientific findings. Then Dr. Steven Holland, Director of NIAID’s Division of Intramural Research, described key research accomplishments at our intramural laboratories.
Dr. Steven M. Holland serves as director of NIAID's Division of Intramural Research

Opportunities and Resources

Through this initiative, our aim is to facilitate the movement of exceptional postdoctoral fellows into independent positions within an accelerated timeframe, and further support them as talented, newly independent faculty.
Improve our understanding of the roles and interactions of immune cells at the maternal-fetal interface that support pregnancy and enable optimal placental development and function.
This program supports high throughput discovery and validation of novel B cell epitopes associated with infectious pathogens or vaccines against them, autoimmune diseases, allergens, or human leukocyte antigen epitopes associated with cell, organ, or tissue transplant rejection or tolerance.

In The News

The changes address the consortium relationship that a grant recipient needs to establish with an organization receiving a subaward under the grant to ensure compliance with NIH requirements.
NIH requests ideas for biomedical and behavioral research challenges and opportunities that may be of interest to the Common Fund for future investment.
A new resource from eRA describes red flags that users commonly encounter when using the Human Subjects System to report, view, and update a project’s human subjects enrollment, inclusion, and clinical trial data.

Advice Corner

While many NIAID careers require expertise specific to our area of science, other positions don’t require an advanced or scientific degree. 

Contact Us

Email us at deaweb@niaid.nih.gov for help navigating NIAID’s grant and contract policies and procedures.