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EGRP News Flash - April 29, 2008
Request for Information: Ideas for NIH Common Fund / Roadmap
Initiatives
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s Office of Portfolio Analysis
and Strategic Initiatives is seeking input from the scientific community,
health professionals, patient advocates, and the general public about
innovative and cross - cutting initiatives to be funded through the
NIH Common Fund. The Common Fund / Roadmap supports programs
that address fundamental knowledge gaps, develop transformative tools
and technologies, and/or foster innovative approaches to complex
problems. These programs are supported for a limited duration of
5-10 years. Collecting ideas is an initial step in the process
of identifying a new cohort of Common Fund / Roadmap programs for
Fiscal Year 2011. The NIH expects to spend $30 - 50 million per year
from within the currently projected budget for new 5-year initiatives.
Because NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) regularly collaborate in
areas of shared interest, the IC Directors and the NIH Leadership
developed specific criteria for Common Fund / Roadmap programs. Primary
among these criteria is that the programs are expected to have exceptionally
high impact and to transform the way research is conducted. All
Common Fund / Roadmap programs are relevant to multiple diseases. All
ideas should meet the following criteria for new trans-NIH strategic
initiatives:
- Is the proposed initiative truly transforming - could it dramatically
affect how biomedical and/or behavioral research is conducted over
the next decade?
- Will the outcomes from the proposed initiatives
synergistically promote and advance the individual missions of
the Institutes and Centers to benefit health?
- Does the proposed
initiative require participation from NIH as a whole and/or does
it address an area (s) of science that does not clearly fall within
the mission of any one IC or OD program office?
- Is the proposed
initiative something that no other entity is likely or able to
do, and is there a public health benefit to having the results
of the research in the public domain?
Responses will be accepted through Friday, June 2, 2008. Please
limit your response to 1 page. To submit a response, please
e-mail roadmap_ideas@nih.gov
Access the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts for details: NOT-RM-08-014.
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