AHM2006 Intro

Ron Kikinis

• Where are we in respect to grant cycles?

• Changes:
  • Core 1 leadership moves from Eric Grimson to Ross Whitaker as of 1/1/2006
  • Michael Ackerman is our new lead science officer see EAB page. Karen Skinner was appointed Program officer for one of the new centers
  • Core 2: GE CRD leadership moves to Jim Miller, Bill Lorensen will remain Core 2 PI
• EAB members are attending the AHM. I encourage you to interact with them.

• New Slicer and new license
  • Slicer 2.6rc2 is out: many bugs fixed and many new features. Please use the bug tracker to report new bugs.
  • Slicer 3.0 will be significantly rearchitected. Please review the plans and give feedback.
  • If you want to contribute to Slicer 3 implementation, please let me know.

• DBP changeover
  • We have an NIH approved procedure for changeover of the DBP's
  • I am looking to you for nominations
  • I expect 3 to 4 new DBP's.
  • Goal to announce the new DBP's at the 2007 AHM
  • Conditions for eligibility are:
    • Willingness to adopt the NA-MIC kit
    • Collaboration history with at least one of the Core 1 or Core 2 groups
    • Hiring of CS personel into the DBP to help translational efforts

• NA-MIC definition of Accomplishment:
  • We need to explain to outsiders the value-add that NA-MIC represents. The fact that all of you are outstanding is not enough.
  • All cores: NIH grants resulting from NA-MIC
  • Dissemination and training: Adoption of NA-MIC kit (what metric to use?)
  • Core 1-3: Joint papers with core 1 and 2
  • Publication pages : please update the pages.
  • Do not forget to acknowledge NA-MIC
    • This is an important measure of productivity (see above)
    • Only peer reviewed journal papers really count.
• Volunteers for next year AHM? Preferred dates?
  • Please send me emails about this

• Blast from the past (last year intro)
  • From the NCBC RFA: Data sharing will be as important as software sharing…
  • http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-035.html 'The NIH will expect investigators … to make their research data available to the scientific community ... . data … for broader use … be free of identifiers … and variables that could lead to deductive disclosure of individual subjects.'
  • http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-032.html '.our definition of "the timely release and sharing" ... no later than the acceptance for publication of the main findings from the final data set. '
  • RFA: Software Sharing: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-04-003.html
    • …NIH does have goals for software dissemination…
    • …software should be freely available …
    • …permit the commercialization of enhanced or customized versions …
    • …include the ability of researchers outside the center and its collaborating projects to modify the source code and to share modifications …

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