The most problematic grant identified by auditors was the institute's largest and most visionary: $25 million to establish a statewide clinical trial network, known as CTNeT, designed to expand access to cancer services and accelerate testing of new cancer treatments.
Initially, we identified a collection of potential GEH grants by selecting any of the following criteria: a) any grant encoded in IMPAC II as a "foreign grant" with budget dollars paid in FY 2005, 2006, or 2007; b) any grant identified by the FTS; or c) any grant identified by NIEHS program officers as having a foreign cohort or sample collection.
Early work on this grant identified and characterized selenoprotein-P (Se-P), a plasma protein made primarily in the liver that carries selenium to the brain and testis.
As part of the project an economic model will be developed based on a review of the literature to relate birth weight changes (and any secondary outcomes affected by the HiP grant identified in this study) to long-term cost and health outcomes (in terms of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)).
A total of 58 active grants were identified, of which 18 had been initiated prior to 2005 and there were an average of about eight new grants per year.
This grant was identified by Jennie Kay, who launched the Detroit Sanctuary Project and received one of our first grants in 2013 and is also now a grant advisor to the Pollination Project.
Mr. Gifford, the center's deputy executive director, said the idea of teaching abstinence until marriage struck him after his government grant writer identified it as "a new funding opportunity".
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, on the other hand, provided over half of all grant money identified.
With the assistance of the CCNSW Research Strategy Unit, the survey targeted current and past grant recipients identified by CCNSW records (n = 95).
As shown in Fig. 1, SDPI-DP grant programs identified 18,134 individuals for screening and recruitment; 2,615 participants met the inclusion criteria, enrolled, and finished the baseline assessment.
