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Initial Review Groups
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Institutes/Divisions
for
The NIH
MANAGEMENT
. Scientific Community
Extramural
. Advisory Councils
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Office of the
Provides
ANALYSIS
. Initial Review Groups
Director - NIH
and
COORDINATION
Advisory Councils
Other Government Agencies
and General Public
NIH EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES
DESIGN OBJECTIVES
The extramural programs of NIH are carried out
IMPAC is a system, the primary objective of
through its various grant and award mechanisms
which is the establishment and maintenance of a
designed to assist public and other nonprofit in-
data base from which complete, accurate, and up-
NIH
stitutions and individuals to expand and improve
to-date reports to all levels of management can
research activities in the health sciences and re-
be generated. To establish such a data base, it
lated fields. NIH extramural activities cover the
was necessary to integrate data processing with
Research Grant, Regional Medical program, Re-
the processing of the review and award operations
search Fellowship, Training Grant, Research
Career, Research Facility, and National Library
of the National Institutes of Health. In this man-
ner, IMPAC builds the required data base while it
of Medicine programs. IMPAC is a computer-based
provides each initial review group and advisory
system which:
council with the necessary documents and reports
Computer based information system
required prior to and subsequent to each step in
on the Extramural Program of NI H
1. Serves as the primary authoritative reporting
the application review process. Similarly, the
system on NIH extramural activities;
award notice as well as peripheral supporting doc-
2. Participates in and records the extramural
uments are prepared by IMPAC and furnished to
activities of NIH, about which a data base is
the Institutes for issuance. The continuing inter-
developed;
action which occurs between IMPAC and the re-
view groups and Institutes and Divisions during the
3. Assists in the processing of project applica-
review and award process insures the development
tions submitted in the extramural programs
of a complete, accurate, and timely data base.
U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
National Institutes of Health
through the review and award processes of NIH.
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