Notice Number: NOT-CA-06-011

Key Dates
Release Date: February 21, 2006

Issued by
National Cancer Institute (NCI), (http://www.nci.nih.gov/)

The Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, Office of the Director, National Cancer Institute, will hold a pre-application meeting for investigators planning to submit applications in response to Request for Applications (RFA) CA-07-012 "Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer" (U24) (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-07-012.html) released under the NCI Clinical Proteomic Technology Initiative for Cancer (http://proteomics.cancer.gov). This p re-application meeting will be held on Monday, February 27, 2006, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, at William H. Natcher Conference Center , National Institutes of Health (NIH), 45 Center Drive , Bethesda , MD.

Prospective applicants are invited to attend this public meeting as an opportunity to ask questions and receive additional information pertinent to the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer initiative. Representatives from the following NCI offices will be available to discuss the intent and requirements of the RFA CA-07-012: Office of Technology and Industrial Relations (OTIR), Technology Transfer Branch, Division of Extramural Activities, Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimens Research, and the Center for Bioinformatics (responsible for the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid, caBIG). While strongly encouraged, potential applicants to RFA CA-07-012 are not required to attend the pre-application meeting.

Prospective applicants may register for participation in the pre-application meeting with Ms. Susan Kerin at [email protected] or online at http://proteomics.cancer.gov by providing the name of the Principal Investigator, institutional affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers. There is no fee for registration

This meeting is open to the public and will be available via web cast at http://videocast.nih.gov. An archived recording of the web cast will be available after the meeting at http://videocast.nih.gov/pastevents.asp.

Inquiries

Inquiries regarding this notice may be directed to:

Adam Michael Clark, Ph.D.
Project Manager
Office of Technology and Industrial Relations
National Cancer Institute
Phone: (301) 451-2149
Email: [email protected]