Sobre o shut-down do governo americano, recebi um e-mail agora de noitinha. Cara, se isso não normalizar rápido, vai virar o caos. Dear Alexandre: After days of not knowing if the government would shut down, Americans awoke this morning to discover that the federal government was closed for the first time in almost two decades. The impact on NIH personnel is clear. Seventy-three percent of personnel at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, are prohibited from working. Unfortunately, the impact of the shutdown extends to the members of the NIH extramural community as well. Now that the shutdown has actually happened, the implications are becoming clearer. For the duration of the shutdown, you will not be able to be in contact with NIH staff. They are prohibited from working, which includes access to email, fax, or mail. In short, any interaction with NIH personnel, electronic or otherwise, can’t take place. What about my grant application? The most important thing you should know is that the NIH itself strongly urges that you do not submit either paper or electronic grant applications to the NIH until the government opens again. The NIH will adjust submission deadlines that fall during the closing once government operations resume. Electronic submissions submitted using Grants.gov just before the government closed will be accepted but will not be processed by the NIH during the shutdown. Awarded Grants You may continue your work under currently active NIH grants awards. However, progress reports, either paper or electronic, should not be submitted. Peer Review and Council Meetings Initial peer review meetings will not take place during the shutdown. Once the government opens again, these meetings will be rescheduled. Applicants with applications already in the peer review process will have to wait until the crisis is resolved for further information. If you are serving on a review panel and were scheduled to meet during this time, any meetings scheduled to take place during the shutdown will be rescheduled and you will not have access to the Internet Assisted Review (IAR) site or any other NIH web-based system. You should have already heard specific information from your Scientific Review Officer. If the stalemate continues into next week, the ASCB is planning to hold a press conference to bring to the public’s attention the harm the shutdown is having on the basic biomedical research community in the United States. A brief halt of government operations will be harmful to federal employees, but if the crisis drags on, the damage to the entire community will only grow. I hope this information is useful. The ASCB Public Policy staff continues to monitor the situation and we will keep you up to date should things change.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 01:02:12 +0000
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