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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 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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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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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 09-036) |
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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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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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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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