The answer, according to a press official who requested anonymity, is that the president was talking not about the typical NIH grant, but specifically the bite-sized R03 mechanism, capped at $50,000 a year for a maximum of 2 years, that's supposed to help researchers collect enough preliminary data to submit a bread-and-butter R01 proposal.
More than 30 inches of rain have fallen in North Carolina, according to preliminary reports submitted to the National Weather Service, which would shatter the statewide storm rainfall record of 24.06 inches set during Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
They have until mid-April to submit preliminary offers.
He asked the commission to submit preliminary recommendations by Dec. 1.
NuScale has completed a detailed preliminary design, and intends to submit a design certification application to the NRC next year.
Earlier this month, Time Warner's real estate broker, Studley, asked roughly a dozen developers to submit preliminary proposals for from one million to three million square feet of office space.
The New York Times Company has scrapped today's deadline for prospective buyers of its troubled Boston Globe to submit preliminary bids for the newspaper after potential suitors asked for more time.
The Financial Times reports that Lianhua, the largest supermarket operator in China, has joined its United States and French rivals among the companies likely to submit preliminary bids for Trust-Mart by next week's deadline.
The other two are already being tested: an independent investigator grant program that does not require applicants to submit preliminary data and a process to speed up the resubmission of R01 grant applications by new investigators who fail on their first attempt.
In contrast to the requirements of NIH's R01 grants (the primary source of funding for up-and-coming researchers), applicants for these grants are "not expected to submit preliminary data or propose hypothesis-driven research," reveals Elliot Postow, director of NIH's division of Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms.
In addition, the new ordinance allows builders to submit preliminary sketches, not finished schematics, to the board and requires a review within 15 days.
