[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: Request for input for NIH Roadmap Programs

[Bryan Bishop]

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Subject: Request for input for NIH Roadmap Programs
Date: Wednesday 30 April 2008
From: "Murcia, Ellie (NIH/OD) [E]" <murciae at od.nih.gov>
To: NIHROADMAP-L at list.nih.gov

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NIH ROADMAP FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH LISTSERV 30-April-2008

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Dear Colleague:

I invite you to participate in a process designed to identify major, 
cross-cutting challenges to health research and to articulate solutions 
to these challenges. The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, funded via 
the NIH Common Fund, is a series of programs that collectively seek to 
transform the way health research is conducted so that treatment, 
diagnosis, prevention, and/or understanding of human disease may be 
accelerated. Roadmap programs are intended to be stimulatory and are 
therefore supported by the Common Fund for a maximum of 10 years. These 
programs accept a high degree of risk to approach complex problems in 
new ways, to develop transformative tools and technologies, and/or to 
address fundamental knowledge gaps that impede progress in many disease 
areas. Each Roadmap program cuts across the missions of NIH Institutes 
and Centers as well across diseases and is expected to accelerate 
research on many diseases and conditions. 

On April 22, 2008, NIH released a Request for Information (RFI) 
(http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-08-014.html 
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-08-014.html> 
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-08-014.html>  ) 
inviting input and ideas from the scientific community, health 
professionals, patient advocates, and the general public about major 
cross-cutting challenges and possible solutions. Collecting these ideas 
is an initial step in the process of identifying a new cohort of Common 
Fund / Roadmap programs for Fiscal Year 2011. This RFI provides an 
opportunity for respondents to submit their own ideas. The NIH expects 
to spend $30 - 50 million per year from within the currently projected 
Roadmap budget for new 5-year initiatives.

More information on this request can be found at: 
http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/ <http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/> 
<http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/>  . 

I appreciate your time and look forward to your participation in this 
process.
 
Sincerely,
 
 
Alan M. Krensky, M.D.

Director
Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI)
National Institutes of Health

 


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