Notice Number: NOT-HL-07-005

Key Dates
Release Date: February 6, 2007

Issued by
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) ( http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/ )

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) announces that it will participate in PA-07-303 titled "Novel Approaches to Enhance Animal Stem Cell Research (R01)" and PA-07-304 titled "Novel Approaches to Enhance Animal Stem Cell Research (R21)", published in the NIH Guide on January 18, 2007. These PAs encourages research to enhance animal stem cells as biological models and approaches to isolate, characterize and identify totipotent and multipotent stem cells from animal models. Animal stem cell models for cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematopoietic systems continue to be highly relevant to the NHLBI mission.

The full text of these announcements can be accessed at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-303.html or http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-304.html

Inquiries:
For questions regarding research areas important to the mission of NHLBI please contact:
John W. Thomas, Ph.D.
Division of Blood Diseases and Resources
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Two Rockledge Center , Room 10154
6701 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda , MD 20892-7950
Telephone: (301) 435-0065
FAX: (301) 480-0868
Email: thomasj@nhlbi.nih.gov