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Appendix C: NIH Research Award Activity Codes and Their Definitions
Pages 159-163

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From page 159...
... The codebook for Information for Management, Planning, Analysis, and Coordination, NIH's information system for its extramural programs, provides short definitions of each activity code that constitute NIH-wide definitions.1 The definitions for the activity codes for center awards and several other common award types are provided below, with the number of awards funded in fiscal year 2002 in brackets. 1The latest version of the codebook can be found at: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/ ac.pdf.
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From page 160...
... Regardless of the facilities available to a program, it usually includes the following objectives: to foster biomedical R&D at both the fundamental and clinical levels; to initiate and expand community education, screening, and counseling programs; and to educate medical and allied health professionals concerning the problems of diagnosis and treatment of a specific disease.
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From page 161...
... models, or animal or biological materials resources available to all qualified investigators without regard to the scientific disciplines or disease orientations of their research activities or specifically directed to a categorical program. Nonmammalian resources include nonmammalian vertebrates, invertebrates, cell systems, and nonbiological systems.
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From page 162...
... The grant can provide support for certain basic resources used by these groups in the program, including clinical components, the sharing of which facilitates the total research effort. A program project is directed toward a range of problems having a central research focus, in contrast to the usually narrower thrust of the traditional research project.
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From page 163...
... . To support research projects that will enhance the capability of resources to serve biomedical research.
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