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Proposed Federal Grant Rule Changes: We Need Your Input

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed changes to federal grant regulations that could affect how grant recipients use federal funding for professional association memberships, self-publishing, conference attendance, and certain advocacy-related activities. For additional information, please visit https://www.aae.org/specialty/aae-joins-scientific-coalition-to-protect-the-future-of-federally-funded-research/

The American Association of Endodontists is assessing how these proposed changes could affect endodontic educators, researchers, and academic programs. Your feedback will help inform our advocacy efforts and ensure policymakers understand the potential impact on our specialty.
1.Do you currently receive, or work within a department that receives, federal research or training grant funding?(Required.)
2.Do you currently receive federal funding to either support your membership to the AAE or attend the AAE Annual Meeting?(Required.)
3.If adopted, which of the following proposed changes could affect you or your department? (Select all that apply)(Required.)
4.Have you used—or do you expect to use—federal research grant funding to pay publication fees required to publish your research?(Required.)
5.If federal research grants could no longer be used to pay publication fees, how would that affect your ability to publish your federally funded research? (Select the option that best describes the primary impact.)(Required.)
6.Please describe how these proposed changes could affect your work, your institution, or endodontic education.
7.May the AAE contact you if we have follow-up questions or would like to use your experience (with your permission) to support our advocacy efforts?(Required.)