BBRB Newsletter: Spring 2001

Greetings Colleagues! Welcome to the first electronic edition of the newsletter of the The Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch (BBRB). The purpose of our newsletter is to provide you with timely and useful information about behavioral science research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the state of behavioral and social sciences research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), training and funding opportunities at NCI, and the NIH grant application and review process. We welcome your feedback, as well as any suggestions for future editions of the newsletter. Our goal is to assist cancer control researchers advance cancer control behavioral science. Send your comments and subscription requests to: wn14x@nih.gov. For more information about the BBRB, contact Wendy Nelson, Ph.D. (301/435-4590) or Mike Stefanek, Ph.D. (301/496-8776), or visit our Web site at http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/BBRB.

Articles:
		Highlighting Selected BBRB Grantee Publications
		BBRB Research Agenda
		Funding Opportunities for Cancer Control Behavioral Scientists
		Frequently Asked Questions of Scientific Review Administrators (SRAs) at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
		A Call to Researchers to Propose an Extraordinary Oppportunity for Investment
		Cancer Research Training and Career Development Opportunities: Focus on the NCI Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Sciences Career Development Award (K07)
		Learn About The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
		Important News For Applicants
		Subscribe to the BBRB Electronic Newsletter
		Archive
Special thanks to our colleagues in CSR (Drs. Mike Micklin, Michele Hindi-Alexander and Lee Mann), OBSSR (Dr. Ronald Abeles) and the NCI Cancer Training Branch (Dr. Brian Kimes) for their valuable contributions to this newsletter.