The Extramural Programs (EP) Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides grants and fellowships to organizations and individuals interested in applying computers and telecommunication for improving storage, retrieval, access, and use of biomedical information.
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Research Support |
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Grants are available for a wide range of informatics-related research activities including: representation of medical knowledge in computers; organization and retrieval issues for image databases; enhancement of human intellectual capacities through virtual reality, dynamic modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning; medical decision-making; linguistic analyses of medical languages and nomenclatures; investigations of topics relevant to health information science; biotechnology informatics issues; and informatics for disaster management.
- Eligibility: Public or private, non-profit or for-profit institutions engaged in health-related education, research, or patient care.
- Support Mechanisms: Research project grant (R01), Small project grant (R03), Conference Grant (R13), Exploratory/Developmental grant (R21), Resource-related research project grant (R24)
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Resource Support |
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Resource grants are designed to support improved dissemination, management and use of biomedical information in real settings. Resource grants help health-related organizations use computers & networks to optimize the management of clinical and scientific knowledge for defined audiences. One program provides assistance for the authoring of scholarly works.
- Eligibility: Domestic public or private, non-profit health-related organizations. Unaffiliated individuals may apply for Scholarly Works grants.
- Support Mechanisms: Resources project grant (G08), Scholarly Works award (G13)
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Career Development Support |
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NLM offers an early career transition award to assist recent PhDs and
MDs who are establishing their initial research careers in informatics.
A loan repayment program provides for the repayment of educational loan
debt of qualified health professionals who agree to conduct informatics
research for two years.
- Eligibility: Domestic or international, public or private, not
for profit or for profit, Federal or non-Federal organizations;
terminal degree health professions or doctoral degree. Specific
eligibility criteria are given in each program announcement
- Support Mechanisms: Pathway to Independence (K99/R00), Loan
Repayment Program (L30)
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Training Support |
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To assure an adequate national pool of informaticians and health information
scientists, training is offered through formal programs and individual fellowships.
NLM funds 18 centers for support of research training in medical informatics
and, and both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels. Interested applicants
must apply directly to the program of their choice. Individual fellowships
are also available to those who wish training support to become in-context
information specialists (informationists).
- Eligibility: Pre-doctoral or post-doctoral applicants at domestic public or
private non-profit health related organizations
- Support Mechanisms: University Biomedical Informatics Research Training Programs (T15), Informationist fellowship (F37)
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Small Business Research & Development Support |
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Grants are made to U.S. small businesses that seek to undertake informatics research
and development leading to commercialization. Critical research areas include:
representation of medical knowledge in computers; organization and retrieval
issues for image databases; enhancement of human intellectual capacities through
virtual reality, dynamic modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning;
medical decision-making; linguistic analyses of medical languages and nomenclatures;
investigations of topics relevant to health information or library science;
biotechnology informatics issues; and informatics for disaster management.
- Eligibility: U.S. for-profit small business with less than 500 employees. The principal investigator’s primary employment is with the firm during the project.
- Support Mechanisms: SBIR/STTR (R41, R42, R43, R44)
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