Notice Number: NOT-MD-05-007

Key Dates
Release Date: November 9, 2005

Issued by
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), (http://ncmhd.nih.gov)

The purpose of this Notice is to announce the participation of NCMHD in the PA-06-041 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-041.html. PA-06-041 is hereby amended to include the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), http://ncmhd.nih.gov in the list of Components of Participating Organizations. The NIH Guide Notice, NOT-OD-05-081, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-081.html provides information on the required electronic submission of applications and the required letter of permission to submit an application. NCMHD will accept R13 applications only. Electronic submission to Grants.gov using the new SF424 (R&R) application form is required for the R13/U13 program (NIH Support of Conferences & Scientific Meetings) for all applications submitted for the December 15, 2005 deadline (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-081.html). No paper applications will be accepted. Organizations must be registered to use both Grants.gov and the eRA Commons in order to submit an application to the NIH. We urge both applicant organizations and PIs to prepare for this process as soon as possible, as the registration process can take 2 weeks to complete. Additional information on preparing your organization for electronic submission and details of NIH's plans is available at http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt.

Prospective applicants must contact the program official listed below no later than six weeks prior to submitting an application. NCMHD will provide support for conferences/scientific meetings that are relevant to minority health and health disparities.

Program contact:

Reuben Warren, DDS, DPH
Office of the Director
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institutes of Health
6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 800 MSC 5465
Bethesda , MD 20892-5465
Phone: (301) 402-1366
Fax: (301)-480-4049
Email: warrenru@mail.nih.gov