NIH seeks ideas for future roadmap trans-NIH strategic initiatives

NIH seeks ideas for future roadmap trans-NIH strategic initiatives

The NIH is asking the scientific community, health professionals, patient advocates, and the general public to suggest ideas about ways to:

address specific barriers to basic, translational or clinical research through development of novel tools, technologies, services, etc., and
fill specific knowledge gaps that hinder research across a broad spectrum of health science.

Innovative and cross-cutting initiatives relevant to multiple diseases will be considered for funding through the NIH Common Fund. The collection of these ideas is the initial step in the process of identifying a new cohort of Common Fund/Roadmap programs for FY2011.

For descriptive information on the Roadmap initiatives go to: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/initiatives.asp and for Roadmap funded research please visit: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/grants/fundedresearch.asp.

Source: Extramural Nexus, Office of Extramural Research, April 2008.