Government Shutdown Averted

By Bouvier Grant Group

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A shutdown was avoided in the eleventh hour last night. The budget for the rest of FY11 will be cut by $39B, but Planned Parenthood and NPR will be spared. Details about the HHS budget were not yet available. Perhaps now NIH can make some funding decisions on Cycle II NIH grants from last year. As of now, grants submitted during Cycle II last calendar year should have been notified in January ’11. Only the highest scoring grants were funded, though in many cases information about the funding award ($) was delayed or is still not available. Many proposals at or near the anticipated funding line have not yet received a decision, as nervous NIH Program Officers were reluctant to overcommit funds in the absence of a budget. Cycle III grants from last calendar year should hear in May, so hopefully now that we have a budget those decision will not be delayed.

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Dr. Meg Bouvier

Margaret Bouvier received her PhD in 1995 in Biomedical Sciences from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. After an NINDS post-doctoral fellowship, she worked as a staff writer for long-standing NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins in the Office of Press, Policy, and Communications for the Human Genome Project and NHGRI. Since 2007, Meg has specialized in editing and advising on NIH submissions, and began offering virtual courses in 2015. She's recently worked with more than 40% of the nation's highest-performing hospitals*, four of the top 10 cancer hospitals, three of the top five medical schools for research, and 14 NCI-designated cancer centers. Her experience at NIH as both a bench scientist and staff writer greatly informs her approach to NIH grantwriting. She has helped clients land over half a billion in federal funding. Bouvier Grant Group is a woman-owned small business.

*Our clients include 9 of the top 22 hospitals as recognized by the 2023/24 US News & World Report honor roll

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