Meetings: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health

Federal Register: November 7, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 217)

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of

Meeting

Pursuant to section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Advisory Committee to the Director, NIH.

The meeting will be open to the public, with attendance limited to space available. Individuals who plan to attend and need special assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should notify the Contact Person listed below in advance of the meeting.

Name of Committee: Advisory Committee to the Director, NIH.

Date: December 5, 2008.

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Agenda: Among the topics proposed for discussion are: (1) NIH

Director's Report; (2) NIH Director's Council of Public

Representatives Liaison Report; (3) Work Group on Participant and

Data Protection for Gene-Wide Association Studies; and (4) Report from NIH Blue Ribbon Panel on the National Emerging Infectious

Disease Lab at Boston University Medical Center.

Place: National Institutes of Health, Building 31, Conference

Room 6, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Contact Person: Penny W. Burgoon, PhD, Senior Assistant to the

Deputy Director, Office of the Director, National Institutes of

Health, 1 Center Drive, Building 1, Room 109, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301-451-5870, burgoonp@od.nih.gov.

Any interested person may file written comments with the committee by forwarding the statement to the Contact Person listed on this notice. The statement should include the name, address, telephone number and when applicable, the business or professional affiliation of the interested person.

In the interest of security, NIH has instituted stringent procedures for entrance onto the NIH campus. All visitor vehicles, including taxicabs, hotel, and airport shuttles will be inspected before being allowed on campus. Visitors will be asked to show one form of identification (for example, a government-issued photo ID, driver's license, or passport) and to state the purpose of their visit.

Information is also available on the Institute's/Center's home page: http://www.nih.gov/about/director/acd.htm, where an agenda and any additional information for the meeting will be posted when available.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.14,

Intramural Research Training Award; 93.22, Clinical Research Loan

Repayment Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds; 93.232, Loan Repayment Program for Research Generally; 93.39,

Academic Research Enhancement Award; 93.936, NIH Acquired

Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Loan Repayment Program; 93.187,

Undergraduate Scholarship Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged

Backgrounds, National Institutes of Health, HHS)

Dated: October 28, 2008.

Jennifer Spaeth,

Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.

FR Doc. E8-26330 Filed 11-6-08; 8:45 am

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