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Research Support |
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Grants are available for fundamental and applied research in biomedical informatics
and bioinformatics. Areas of research interest include: representation, organization
and retrieval of biomedical and biological data and images; enhancement of
human intellectual capacities through virtual reality, dynamic modeling, artificial
intelligence, and machine learning; medical decision-making; linguistic analyses
for natural language processing and understanding; informatics topics relevant
to public health and informatics for disaster management.
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NLM Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) Test & Evaluation Grants (R24) (PAR 05-077) |
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This grant program will expire on May 8, 2008, and will not be renewed. No new or amended applications will be accepted. Applications already received will be reviewed and considered for funding. Projects related to test and evaluation of approaches for delivering context appropriate information across organizational boundaries may be in scope for NLM Express Research Grants (R01) or Small Project Grants (R03). |
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NLM Informatics Conference Grants (R13) (PA 08-149) |
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Support for scientific meetings, conferences, and workshops that are relevant
to biomedical informatics and bioinformatics. |
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Human Microbiome Demonstration Projects (UH2/UH3) (RFA-RM-08-012) |
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Support for projects that will examine, through molecular approaches, the relationship between changes in the human microbiome and human health and disease. |
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Resource Support |
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Resource grants are designed to improve the dissemination, management and use
of biomedical knowledge. Resource grants support the development and deployment
of knowledge management tools, resources, and services that address identified,
unmet needs for a broad audience.
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Planning Grant for Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) (G08) (PAR 07-238) |
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NLM's IAIMS planning grant supports development of a plan for a comprehensive trans-organizational information management structures. The program emphasizes context appropriate information, linking the published biomedical knowledge base with clinical, research, educational and administrative information. |
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Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13) (PAR 07-237) |
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Support for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other scholarly works
of value to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical
researchers and historians of the health sciences. |
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Career Development Support |
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NLM offers an early career development award to help informatics trainees make
the transition to a successful independent research career. A loan repayment
program provides for the repayment of educational loan debt of qualified health
professionals.
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NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) (PA 07-297) |
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Career transition assistance for biomedical informaticians moving from mentored research to their first independent research program.
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Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (LRP-CR and LRP-PR) |
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Repayment of educational loan debt for qualified health professionals who agree to conduct informatics research for two years. |
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Training Support |
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To assure an adequate national pool of informatics researchers and health information
specialists, training is offered through formal programs and individual fellowships.
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Individual Informationist Fellowships (F37) (PAR 06-509) |
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Support for librarians, scientists, health professionals and others who wish
to obtain cross-training to become in-context information specialists. |
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Small Business Research & Development Support |
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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer
Research (STTR) grants are made to U.S. small businesses that seek to undertake
informatics research and development leading to commercialization. The STTR
program requires a small business applicant organization to formally collaborate
with a research institution in Phase I and Phase II.
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Small Business Innovation Research Grants SBIR (R43/R44) (PA 08-050) and STTR (R41/42) (PA 08-051) |
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Support for small businesses that seek to undertake informatics research and
development leading to commercialization. Phase I, Phase II and Fast-Track. |
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Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative SBIR (R43/R44) (PA 06-009) and STTR (R41/R42) (PA 06-008) |
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Support for SBIR and STTR projects developing and applying nanotechnology to
biomedicine. Phase I, Phase II and Fast-Track. |
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New Technologies for Liver Disease SBIR (R43/R44) (PA 06-397) and STTR (R41/R42) (PA 06-396) |
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SBIR and STTR support for development of reliable and practical means of diagnosis
of liver diseases. |
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