October 24, 2003

Electronic Grant Applications Make Their Debut at NIH

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

The National Institutes of Health passed a milestone this month in its effort to help scientists avoid the reams of paper that accompany the typical grant application for biomedical and behavioral research: It accepted 14 grant applications electronically.

By this time next year, the agency hopes to use the same procedure for most of the 37,000 competitive grants that it expects to award to individual researchers in the 2004 fiscal year. These grants are known as "R-01's" and are the

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