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AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting: Registration & YIS Abstract Submission Open (Early Registration Discount ends February 8th)

Funding Opportunities

2012 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards

2012 Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program

2012 Minority Undergraduate Summer Experience (MUSE) Program

2012 AAPM Fellowship for Graduate Study in Medical Physics 

2012 - 2013 AAPM Support for Clinical Residency in Imaging Medical Physics

2012 Research Seed Funding Initiative

RPOP Website updates

• Radiation and Cataract- New page
• Growth in Imaging: Will it continue?
• Russian Translation of poster on 10 Pearls: Radiation protection of Staff  and Patients in fluoroscopy
• Interim version of the BSS released
• Image Gently’s "Go with the guidelines" campaign for child sizing radiopharmaceutical dose
• Upcoming Events
  • SAFRAD User’s meeting,
  • Meeting for Joint position statement for the IAEA Smart Card/SmartRadTrack protect,
• Latest literature

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Meetings Calendar

Chapter Meetings: January 2012 - April 2012

World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering: May 26 - 31, 2012, Beijing, China

AAPM Website Updates

AAPM announces open access to selected content in Medical Physics

AAPM Newsletter - New Edition Now Available  

AAPM Position Statement on Radiation Risks from Medical Imaging Procedures

The AAPM Medical Physics Residency Application Program (MP-RAP) is now available for institutional users. See the Applicant and Program FAQ for more details.

Career Services & Committee Classifieds

Career Services Ads as of January 5, 2012

AAPM Committee Classifieds as of January 5, 2012

Funding Opportunities

2012 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards

Announcing a funding opportunity for the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards:

• Exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research
• Clinical, basic, and/or behavioral/social science research projects
• Up to $25 million total costs per year for a single project
• One-third of total funding budget geared to projects with more than $1 Million in direct costs.

The deadline for submitting Transformative Research Project applications is January 12, 2012 with Letters of Intent due by December 12, 2011.  See the instructions in the RFA-RM-11-006.  Additional information, including Frequently Asked Questions about the Transformative Research Projects Program is available at:http://commonfund.nih.gov/TRA. Send questions to Transformative_Awards@mail.nih.gov.

The NIH Common Fund (formerly the NIH Roadmap)encourages collaboration and supports a series of exceptionally high impact, trans-NIH programs. These programs are supported by the Common Fund, and managed by the NIH Office of the Director in partnership with the various NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices. Additional information about the NIH Common Fund can be found at http://commonfund.nih.gov.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) –“The Nation’s Medical Research Agency” – includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.