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10/28/2003

NIH Begins the Move to Electronic Grant Applications
by Mildred Holley, Technology Programs Manager

The National Institutes of Health this month accepted 14 grant applications electronically as an initial step in an agency-wide move away from paper applications. Grant applicants, many of whom are college and university researchers, have long complained that the application process takes too much time, with many applicants waiting more than six months to learn results. The agency annually awards around 37,000 competitive grants to individual researchers, and officials hope that by this time next year most of those applications will be handled electronically. John J. McGowan, the NIH's program manager for electronic records, said it could be two years before a majority of applicants submit electronic applications and the system is working smoothly.

Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 October 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i09/09a02801.htm

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