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<p class="MsoNormal">NIH has published a Request For Applications (RFA) for Research Education Program Grants for CryoEM Curriculum Development (R25)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">This NIH Common Fund initiative will <span style="color:#333333">
support development of online instructional materials, including video-based methods tutorials, novel self-paced learning approaches, or computer-based educational tools that will provide instruction to biomedical researchers in the application of cryoelectron
 microscopy (cryoEM) techniques, theory, and analysis</span>.  This Program will facilitate investigator-driven development and implementation of individualized, self-paced instructional materials for cryoEM research, which includes both cryoEM single particle
 analysis and cryoelectron tomography (cryoET). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-17-004.html">https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-17-004.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">RFA-RM-17-004<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Questions?  Contact<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Houmam Araj, Ph.D.<br>
National Eye Institute (NEI)<br>
Telephone: 301-451-2020 <br>
Email: <a href="mailto:arajh@nei.nih.gov">arajh@nei.nih.gov</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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