'M' Acronyms
- Meals and Incidental Expenses M&IE
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Meals and Incidental Expenses (M&IE) is one of the elements that make up standard per diem rates for official travel.
- See: Per Diem Allowance
- Master Agreement MA
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A mechanism used to enhance competition among prospective offerors by establishing pools of qualified sources in a particular research and development, evaluation or area of study. The intent is to establish qualified pools of sources (known as Master Agreement holders) who can respond to competitive solicitations in a short time frame.
- See Also: Basic Agreement ; Basic Ordering Agreement ; Blanket Purchase Agreement
- Minority Access to Research Careers MARC
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The meaning of the MARC acronym is now defined as Maximizing Access to Research Careers to better reflect the intent of the MARC Program.
Quoted from NIH Guide Notice NOT-GM-14-116.
- See: Maximizing Access to Research Careers Undergraduate - Student Training in Academic Research
- Maximizing Access to Research Careers Undergraduate - Student Training in Academic Research MARC USTAR T34
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The Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U-STAR) program is designed to provide structured training programs to prepare high-achieving, underrepresented students for doctoral programs in biomedical research fields. Programmatic activities should include authentic research experiences, academic enhancements, skills development, and mentoring. The long-term goal of the program is to enhance the pool of underrepresented students earning baccalaureate and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical research fields and ultimately to contribute to the diversification of the nation's scientific workforce.
- Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program MBCCOP
- See: NCI Community Oncology Research Program
- Minority Biomedical Research Support Program MBRS
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To increase the numbers of ethnic minority faculty, students, and investigators engaged in biomedical research, and to broaden the opportunities for participation in biomedical research of ethnic minority faculty, students, and investigators, by providing general support for biomedical research programs at eligible institutions..
Quoted from 42 CFR §52c.1.
NIH's Minority Biomedical Research Support Program has three components:
- Multicomponent Application MCA
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For the support of a broadly based, multidisciplinary, often long-term research program which has a specific major objective or a basic theme. A program project generally involves the organized efforts of relatively large groups, members of which are conducting research projects designed to elucidate the various aspects or components of this objective.
- See: Multi-Project Grant Application
- Most Efficient Organization MEO
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This process involves identifying functions would be considered commercial and under going a process in which the government structures an in-house workforce and then compares it with any qualified commercial providers through a contract bid process.
- Minority Graduate Research Assistants MGRA
- See: Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences
- Minority High School Student MHS
- See: Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences
- Minority Institution MI
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The term "minority institution" means an institution of higher education whose enrollment of a single minority or a combination of minorities (as defined in paragraph (2)) exceeds 50 percent of the total enrollment. The Secretary shall verify this information from the data on enrollments in the higher education general information surveys (HEGIS) furnished by the institution to the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education.
The term "minority institutions" (MIs) is defined by § 365(3) of the Higher Education Act (HEA) (20 U.S.C. §1067k.(3)). This definition of "minority institutions" applies only to the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) and other programs whose statutes or regulations reference the same MI definition. A list of minority institutions compiled for the purposes of the MSEIP can be found at https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/edlite-minorityinst-list.html.
- Minority Individuals in Postdoctoral Training MIPT
- See: Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences
- Minority Investigator Supplement MIS
- See: Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences
- Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium MMHCC
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This program ended in 2014.
- See: electronic Models Information, Communication, and Education (eMice)
- Memorandum of Understanding MOU
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A written agreement between/among two or more NIH ICs, between NIH and another NIH component, or between an NIH IC and another agency.
Quoted from §D.7 of the NIH Policy Manual Chapter 55010.
- Post-Baccalaureate and Post Masters Degree Students MPBM
- See: Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI
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A procedure in which radio waves and a powerful magnet linked to a computer are used to create detailed pictures of areas inside the body. These pictures can show the difference between normal and diseased tissue. MRI makes better images of organs and soft tissue than other scanning techniques, such as computed tomography (CT) or x-ray. MRI is especially useful for imaging the brain, the spine, the soft tissue of joints, and the inside of bones. Also called magnetic resonance imaging, NMRI, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.
Quoted from the NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms.
- Minority-Serving Institution MSI
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Under part F of the HEA, 20 U.S. Code § 1067q — "Investment in historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions," the following institutions are eligible to receive funds under that section:
- (1) a part B institution (a historically Black college or university) (§322 of the HEA, 20 U.S.C. §1061);
- (2) a Hispanic-serving institution (§502 of the HEA, 20 U.S.C. §1101a);
- (3) a Tribal College or University (§316 of the HEA, 20 U.S.C. §1059c);
- (4) an Alaska Native-serving institution or a Native Hawaiian-serving institution (§317(b) of the HEA, 20 U.S.C. §1059d(b);
- (5) a Predominantly Black Institution (§§318(b) and 371(c)(9) of the HEA; 20 U.S.C. §§ 1059e(b) and 1067q(c)(9));
- (6) an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution (§§ 320(b) and 371(c)(2) of the HEA, 20 U.S.C. §§1059g(b) and 1067q(c)(2); or
- (7) a Native American-serving nontribal institution (§§319(b) and 371(c)(8) of the HEA; 20 U.S.C. §§ 1059f(b) and 1067q(c)(8).
- Medical Scientist Training Program MSTP
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This program encourages and supports the training of students with outstanding credentials and potential who are motivated to undertake careers in biomedical research and academic medicine. MSTP students participate in an integrated program of graduate training in the biomedical sciences and clinical training offered through medical schools. Graduates receive the combined M.D. - Ph.D. degree, and the majority of them pursue careers in basic biomedical or clinical research.
For additional information, visit the NIH NIGMS Medical Scientist Training Program webpage.
- Material Transfer Agreement MTA
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A legal document defining the conditions under which research or other materials can be transferred and used among research laboratories.
Quoted from the NIH OER Glossary & Acronym List.
- Molecular Targets Program MTP
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The Molecular Targets Program (MTP) is an organization within the Center for Cancer Research(CCR) at NCI. The MTP provides the focus and infrastructure to enable CCR tenured and tenure-track Principal Investigators to initiate and pursue interdisciplinary, applied, collaborative, molecularly targeted drug discovery research within a matrix organizational format that is both supportive of and complementary to the traditional NCI/NIH intramural Lab/Branch organization. The MTP mission statement further defines the new organizational model. The initial goal of the MTP is to facilitate the discovery of compounds that may serve as bioprobes for functional genomics, proteomics and molecular target validation research, as well as leads or candidates for drug development. Compounds of interest include not only classical, "drug-like" organic small-molecules, but also peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates and other bioactive chemical classes. Future implementation phases of the MTP concept may support preclinical and clinical development of promising new molecularly targeted investigational drugs.
- Medically Underserved Areas and Populations MUA/Ps
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Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and Medically Underserved Populations (MUPs) identify geographic areas and populations with a lack of access to primary care services.
MUAs have a shortage of primary care health services for residents within a geographic area such as:
- a whole county;
- a group of neighboring counties;
- a group of urban census tracts; or
- a group of county or civil divisions.
- homeless;
- low-income;
- Medicaid-eligible;
- Native American; or
- migrant farmworkers.
- the population to provider ratio;
- the percent of the population below the federal poverty level;
- the percent of the population over age 65; and
- the infant mortality rate.
IMU can range from 0 to 100, where zero represents the completely underserved. Areas or populations with IMUs of 62.0 or less qualify for designation as an MUA/P.
Quoted from the Health Resources & Services Administration's (HRSA's) Medically Underserved Areas and Populations (MUA/Ps) webpage.
- Minority Undergraduate Student MUS
- See: Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences