Please assemble the following information:

1. Recommending Memorandum from Laboratory/Branch Chief to Scientific Director (SD), including:
   
   
   1. Brief summary of the individual's scientific contributions prior to the last promotion.
      
      
   2. Listing of the principal areas to which the individual has contributed since the last promotion, identifying the particular related published work(s).
      
      
   3. Discussion of the individual's current programmatic role: e.g., individual contribution, collaborator, service. The latter could include administrative service to the IC, as well as to the professional community (teaching, editing, organizational).
      
      
   4. Principal reason for promoting at this time.
      
      
   5. Brief statement about the personnel resources the individual has had since the last promotion.
      
      
2. CV and Bibliography that should include:
   
   
   1. Examples of scientific recognition, e.g., awards, honors, and outside scientific activities.
      
      
   2. The 5 most important publications since the last promotion should be checked off on the bibliography.
      
      
3. Board of Scientific Counselors Report (most recent review).
   
   
4. Report of IC Promotion/Tenure Committee.
   
   Letters:
   
   
   1. Outgoing letter soliciting Letters of Recommendation.
      
      
   2. Letters of Recommendation (at least three from "unrelated" individuals, and of which two are from outside the NIH). If the SD feels these are unnecessary, he/she can summarize such letters or the results of telephone calls in the recommending memorandum.
      
      

   IC Approval by: ______________________
   Date approved: ______________________
   Copy to DDIR (Bldg. 1 - Room 160) on: ____________________