email invitation

ATTACHMENT A: A Virtual Forum on National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)-supported COVID-19 Research -- Invitation Email

The following email will be sent by NIAAA Project Officers to their grantees who received COVID-19 funding:

Dear Investigator,

Congratulations again on your recent grant award or supplement for COVID-related research. NIAAA is considering convening a virtual research forum to share results from NIAAA-supported studies addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. We invite you to submit an abstract of your research. Our current plan envisions a virtual meeting to take place between November 30 to December 2, final dates to be determined. Presentations will follow a “data blast” format of 5-to-7-minute talks with no more than 5 content slides followed by discussion panels organized by broad areas of science.

Please reply to this message using the attached template to indicate whether (a) your research has progressed to the point where you have results that can be shared, and (b) you are interested in participating in this proposed event to present your findings to NIAAA and investigators funded to conduct research in this area. Please reply to this message with an abstract using the proposed template. If there is sufficient interest among awardees with findings to report, NIAAA staff will select abstracts for presentation. Please reply no later than October 28, 2022. Respondents will be informed of selections and logistics by November 18, 2022.

We look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

The NIAAA COVID Team