December 4, 1997 Meeting Agenda

Building 31C, Conference Room 10
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

8:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks … Dr. Harold Varmus

9:30 a.m. Center for Scientific Review … Dr. Elvera Ehrenfeld

— Reorganization

— The Future of Peer Review

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. Report from the Clinical Research Panel … Dr. David Nathan

11 :30 a.m. New Investigator Awards, Modular Awards … Dr. Wendy Baldwin
and Clinical Research Training

12:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. Report from Working Group on Research Tools … Ms. Rebecca Eisenberg

2:00 p.m. Implementation of the Government Performance … Dr. Lana Skirboll
and Results Act (GPRA)

3:00 p.m. Report on the Review of Administrative Functions … Mr. Anthony Itteilag at NIH

3:45 p.m. Discussion

4:00 p.m. Adjournment

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