About Us

• Mission Statement
• Staff Listing
• Contact Information

Science Policy

• Cloning
  • Cloning: Present Uses and Promises
• Human Embryo Research
  • Report of the Human Embryo Research Panel
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2
• Fetal Tissue Research
  • Therapeutic Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Activities Funded by the National Institutes of Health in FY 1998
• Stem Cell Research
  • Primer on Stem Cell Research
  • NIH Position On Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research
  • Testimony of Dr. Harold Varmus
  • NIH: What would you hope to achieve from human pluripotent stem cell research?
  • Updated – Fact Sheet on Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research Guidelines, January 2001

Planning

• Congressional Justification
• NIH Planning and Evaluation Officers

HIPAA Privacy Rule

NIH Information Quality

• Frequently Asked Questions (Includes information on how to submit a request for correction)
• NIH Information Quality Guidelines
• DHHS Information Quality Guidelines
• OMB Final Guidelines for Information Quality (February 22, 2002)
• OMB Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review (January 14, 2005)
• Relevant NIH Policy Manuals
  • 1183: NIH Publications and Audiovisuals: Preparation, Review, Approval and Distribution, February 27, 2002
  • 1184: Scientific and Professional Information Presented by NIH Employees: Review, Approval, and Distribution, February 27, 2002
• NIH Information Quality Mailing Address
• NIH Tutorial on Information Quality Guidelines (NIH staff only)
• Technical Assistance Materials for Peer Review (NIH staff only)

Economic Studies Program

• Biomedical Research and Development Price Index (BRDPI)
• Disease-Specific Estimates of Direct and Indirect Costs of Illness and NIH Support
• Summary Measures of Health Bibliography
• WHO Conference on Summary Measures of Population Health

NIH Task-Order Contract with the National Academies

Policy Fellowship Programs

• American Association for the Advancement of Science - National Institutes of Health Science Policy Fellowship
  • AAAS-NIH Fellows
• Institute of Medicine Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Program
• National Academies of Sciences Christine Marizayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
• U.S. Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellowship (ComSci) Program
• Americal Society for Microbiology Congressional Fellow
• American Chemical Society
• American Psychological Association

Biomarkers

• NIH Publications on Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints
  • Biomarkers and surrogate endpoints: Preferred definitions and conceptual framework. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2001;69:89-95 (105 KB)
  • Considerations in the evaluation of surrogate endpoints in clinical trials: Summary of a National Institutes of Health workshop. Controlled Clinical Trials 2001; 22:485–502 (143 KB)
  • Information on the conference proceedings Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints: Clinical Research and Applications maybe obtained from Elsevier Scientific.
• Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Clinical Trials
  • Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints: Advancing Clinical Research and Applications—An NIH-FDA Conference, April 15–16, 1999
  • Research Needs for the Design and Analysis of Surrogate Endpoints in Clinical Trials—An NIH Workshop, December 1–2, 1999
• Biomarker Knowledge Systems
  • Summary of Biomarkers Knowledge System Meeting—September 8, 2000 (126 KB)
• NIH Biomarker Research Programs
  • NCI Early Detection Research Network Biomarkers Program
  • NHLBI RFA (Release Date: June 22, 2000)
  • NICHD PA (Release Date: January 18, 2001)
• Other Federal Research Agencies
  • Biomarkers for the Assessment of Exposure and Toxicity in Children—National Center for Environmental Research, Environmental Protection Agency
• Recent Presentations
  • July 11, 2000 Presentation at Toxicology Forum
  • May 1, 2000 Presentation at the Drug Information Association
  • March 1, 2000 Presentation at FDA, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
  • February 23, 2000 Presentation at International Conference on Drug Development

NIH Program on Public-Private Partnerships

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