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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Hi everyone:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>This is just FYI and provides information about the review
of the proposal we submitted in May for continued development of IGSTK. The
major point to note is that we can submit up to three pages of supplemental
information by September 1<sup>st</sup>. This is true of most NIH grant
applications and is generally a good thing to do. Possible material to include
here is:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>abstracts of MICCAI
papers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>information on the
book<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>information on any
further releases of the toolkit<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>So this gives us further motivation to finish the book and
release the toolkit by the end of August. I will mention this again at the tcon
on Thursday (which I will actually participate in since I am back from my two
week trip to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Rigas, Marc
(NIH/CSR) [E] [mailto:rigasm@csr.nih.gov] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 07, 2006 11:01
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">cleary@georgetown.edu</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> ZRG1 BST-D(51): Important
NIH grant review information</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEAR DR. CLEARY:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>This is to provide information about the review of
your NIH application, entitled “Continued Development for The
Image-guided Surgical Toolkit Project (IGSTK)”, by the ZRG1 BST-D 51
study section, “Software Development and Maintenance”. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>There are two scientific review administrators for
this panel, and either of us may serve as your primary point of contact prior
to review. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>You may contact us both by email
by sending to csrsoftware_review@csr.nih.gov . </span></i>After the review is
complete, your primary NIH contact will be your Program Director at the
particular institute considering your application. At that time, please direct
questions about scores and summary statements to your Program Director. If you
do not have the contact information for your Program Director, it can be found
by looking at your grant record in the NIH eRA Commons.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>The following information is pertinent to the review
of your application: </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.0pt;text-indent:-19.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Supplementary
material receipt date: Sept. 1, 2006 <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>by 3:00
PM Eastern time</span></b>. (please read below before submitting)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.0pt;text-indent:-19.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Review meeting date:
Sept. 17-18, 2006</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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none'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Scores on eRA Commons
by: Sept. 21, 2006</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.0pt;text-indent:-19.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Summary statement
available for download by: Oct. 19, 2006</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.0pt;text-indent:-19.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Institute Council
Meeting dates (funding decisions): January 2007</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Principal Investigators should establish accounts on
the NIH eRA Commons to obtain important information about their applications
(including scores and summary statements). The web site is:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="http://commons.era.nih.gov/">http://commons.era.nih.gov</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>To get an account, please contact the research
administration office at your institution as directed on the Commons web
page. If you are a small business, there are instructions on how to
contact Commons to set your institution up on the system if it is not on
already.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Supplementary Materials/Updates:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>You are not required to submit update material and reviewers
are not required to consider it. However, we will accept some such material for
late breaking or missing information. You may submit no more than <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>three</span></b> pages (same font and margin
requirements as for your grant application), and they <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>must be emailed directly to
csrsoftware_review@csr.nih.gov in pdf format</span></b>. You may also
submit additional publications that have been accepted up to the total limit of
10 with your R01 application. These should also be sent electronically. All
supplementary material must be received by the deadline above. Typically, less
than 1/4 of applicants submit such material. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Human Subjects / Vertebrate animals:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>It is your responsibility to provide information
regarding the protection of human subjects (along with inclusion of women,
minorities and children) and vertebrate animals in the appropriate sections of
your application, and the peer reviewers will judge this as part of their merit
evaluation. If no human subjects or animals are used, you state this in the
corresponding section. If your research uses only data from human subjects,
that data cannot be identified or linked to any individual, and none of the
investigators or collaborators have access to the raw, identifiable data, then
this is not considered human subjects research. However, if this is not
the case and your research does use human subjects, it is your responsibility
to make sure that the required material on protection from risks, inclusion of
women, minority, and children, or justification for exemption from human
subject protection, is included in your application. If it is not, the review
panel may find that this material was inadequately addressed. You may submit
this as part of your supplementary material. If you have any questions, please
contact one of us. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Meeting Roster:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>The final membership roster for this meeting will be
available on the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) website at approximately 30
days before the review meeting<a name="OLE_LINK1">. The roster varies
from meeting to meeting. Please check here and scroll down to find ZRG1 BST-D
51:</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>http://www.csr.nih.gov/Roster_proto/allother_sep.asp</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>If you have any questions, concerns or comments about
the review of your application or the NIH peer review process in general,
please feel free to contact us. We are here to ensure that your application is
presented in the best possible light within the bounds of fairness.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Best regards,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>____________________</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Malgorzata Klosek,
Ph.D.
Marc Rigas, Ph.D.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Scientific Review
Administrator
Scientific Review Administrator</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bioengineering Sciences and Technologies
Group
Bioengineering Sciences and Technologies Group</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Center for Scientific Review,
NIH
Center for Scientific Review, NIH</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'>TEL: 301-435-2211; FAX:
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style='font-size:11.0pt'>Email: <a href="mailto:csrsoftware_review@csr.nih.gov">csrsoftware_review@csr.nih.gov</a>
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