 So 215, so let's resume with the open session of the council meeting. We're going to jump back into the agenda and we'll be dealing with two concepts that will be presented to the council. I want to remind the council that before each year I can publish a funding opportunity announcement. It has to be approved in a public meeting. This is the open session of our council meetings for concept clearance and that way the council members are familiar with everything that goes out the door at an HGRI. So, Luis Cubano is going to lead the discussion here I give you a presentation about the two concepts. For those of them, we will invite questions and comment from council, and when the discussion is run its course, I'll call for a vote to approve the concept. So, Luis, are you going to begin with Natalie? Yeah, you brought up the slides. Thank you. You're beginning with the F99K00, correct Luis? Yeah. Good afternoon, everybody. Today we will present to you two concepts that we are developing to address the suggestions included in the training and education task force report that were presented by Dr. Wendy Shung during the February council open session. And as we follow the task force advice, we selected these two concepts as increasing diversity in the general express force was highly emphasized the task force report. We will start by presenting the concept predoctoral to postdoctoral transition award to promote diversity. Next slide. So, for this concept, we are going to take advantage of a relatively new NIH mechanism that supports the transition of graduate students to a postdoctoral position. Our target are going to be students from diverse backgrounds. The F99K00 mechanism facilitates completion of the doctoral dissertation and transition to postdoctoral research by providing the necessary funding to support the student and also funding during the postdoctoral phase of training. More importantly, it supports the students through a transition point where many diverse students exit the career pipeline. Next, with this concept, we're seeking to increase the diversity of the postdoctoral trainees and hopefully in the future of the genomic workforce in general. The concept will provide funds for students that are two years away from graduation. The eligible students will be from diverse backgrounds, as described in the NIH interest in diversity notice. That is, students from underrepresented racial groups, individuals with disabilities, individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, and women. Next, the budget will consist of an F and a K section, and we will follow the NIH guidelines for each section of the budget. We will provide support for the student and will provide also support for the research at the postdoctoral level. Participants will pursue their training on a full-time basis. The project will period include, say, two years of support for the students and three years of support for the postdocs. The applications to be funded will depend on the number of applications received and the quality of the applications. Next, and I would like to thank the members of the training team for developing the concepts. At this moment, we would like to start a discussion of the first one. And the council discussion leads for this one are Dr. Bucking and Dr. Rich. Dr. Bucking, do you have any comments? Yeah, thanks, Lewis. I really don't. I think this is an excellent idea. I understand that it's not been around long enough to have much of a understanding of the track record at the NIH about how this mechanism is going to work. I was able to see a National Cancer Institute, a similar program that's been issued already. But I guess one question was, is that a correct assessment that this is so new that we don't have much experience with it? I think my only second set of issues that you now touched on with these slides is the complexity of the NIH policy about diversity. We all know how hugely important that is, and this is really, of course, building on the strategic plan and the emphasis on diversity and the strategic plan, both for research participants and for the research community more broadly. But this seems to me like a wonderful mechanism to really promote the young scholars early in their career. I think ultimately when the guidance is published on this, it'll have to have a fair amount of information on the definition of diversity and what different sorts of individuals can take advantage of this mechanism. So all in all, very supportive. Yeah, when we publish the FOA, we will direct individuals to the notice on diversity. That way, we don't have to repeat the language as we are not allowed to do that, but it will have a link to it. Okay. Any other comments? So this is Steve. I agree with Jeff completely. In terms of the importance of this initiative, it's important to really make a significant impact on this area in genome sciences and the only questions really are how much money can you put to this? More is better. And there's always going to be some give and take in terms of the budget. It's interesting that you said, you know, depending on the applications you get is somewhat of a depending is sort of predictive of how many you can fund. I think that's going to be a critical component. But also critical is to make certain that eligible individuals know about it. And so I would really encourage, you know, broad based advertising, however you can imagine to do that. And obviously tracking of what happens afterwards, keeping track of these people. So, again, I'm very supportive. It's an important initiative and a step in the right direction. Thank you. Yeah, we have developed a website that highlights funding opportunities for diverse populations. We're looking for a new website. And we'll go ahead and use the website. We also started doing some Twitter advertising if we want to call it that way. Our training programs. So hopefully using social media and reaching out to our PIs to mass emails will be able to get a good response rate. I've got Hal Dietz and Sharon Plon, please. Thank you for that presentation, Luis. Other institutes such as NCI have not specifically targeted this funding mechanism for increasing diversity. I fully applaud its use in that manner, but also recognize that this is a very sensitive career transition time for many emerging scientists. And I'm wondering, does the Institute have broader plans of using this funding mechanism to attract additional people into genetics and genomics. So we will develop a parallel announcement similar to what we do with the F31, where we have a parent F31 and diversity F31. There'll be a way to address your concern. Thank you. Sharon, are you good. I had the same question as how. Okay. Other questions or comments for Luis about this particular concept. Okay. Hearing none, let me ask for a motion to approve this concept. And I heard a second in there as well. All in favor. Anyone opposed or abstaining? All right. Thank you very much. Luis, you want to move us along to the K18 concept, please.