What should be done if there have been significant losses of unique resources, research tools, and/or repositories of information (i.e. databases)?
Where there have been significant losses to animals, unique research tools and/or repositories of information, investigators should work with their project officers to develop a plan to determine what must be restored in order for the research to continue. The focus should be on what needs to be replaced in order to resume approved research, even if this does not restore everything that was lost. If necessary, however, an administrative supplement may be considered to add funds and/or time. If you have shared a resource in the past, it may be possible to make use of that avenue. For example it may be possible to restore a line of animals from a pair that were shared with another researcher or other research tools and data that has been shared and could now be regained. You may also have your investigators explore the links to the various scientific resources that are available from NIH Institute and Center home pages.
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