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Past scientific meetings, conferences & events
The NICHD sponsors and co-sponsors scientific meetings, conferences, and events throughout the year. Some of these meetings are listed below. Please note that most of these meetings are scientific in nature and are not intended for participation by non-scientists. Participation in some events is by invitation only.

2008

  • Population Research Infrastructure Program (PRIP) Directors' Meeting (12/10/2008)
  • Health Literacy Grantee Meeting: Lessons Learned and To Be Learned (12/10/2008)
  • Pre-Application Meeting: Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) U10 Funding Opportunity Announcements (12/03/2008)
  • Extramural Associates (EA) Program Residency Training Program (11/21/2008)
  • November 2008 National Children’s Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (11/06/2008)
  • Building Institutional Infrastructure for the Conduct of Health Disparities Research (11/01/2008)
  • International Symposium on Osteogenes (10/18/2008)
  • Building Research Capacity at Tribal Colleges and Universities: Priorities and Opportunities (10/11/2008)
  • Orphan Mechanisms of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI): Passion for Participatory Research (10/03/2008)
  • Directions in Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Research: Child Development, Health, and Therapeutic Interventions (10/02/2008)
  • 11th International Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (09/27/2008)
  • 2nd International Symposium on Pheochromocytoma (09/20/2008)
  • Neonatal Hypoglycemia: Opportunities and Challenges (09/09/2008)
  • Infections in the High-Risk Newborn Infant (08/08/2008)
  • August 2008 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (08/07/2008)
  • Gordon Research Conference on Mutagenesis (07/25/2008)
  • 2008 Add Health Users Group Conference (07/25/2008)
  • Pediatric Medical Devices Stakeholders Workshop (07/23/2008)
  • Feeding Families: Social Sciences and Social Epidemiology Approaches to Obesity Research (07/09/2008)
  • Surgeon General's Conference on the Prevention of Preterm Birth (06/17/2008)
  • International Adrenal Cortex Conference “Adrenal 2008” (06/14/2008)
  • International Conference on Genetic and Genomic Medicine (06/11/2008)
  • Molecular Cell Biology Gordon Research Conference (06/06/2008)
  • Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Scholars' Research Symposium (06/03/2008)
  • Science and Ecology of Early Development (SEED) Grantee Meeting: Child Care Research Meets Policy (04/25/2008)
  • April 2008 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (04/23/2008)
  • Preconception Care Research: Improving Birth Outcomes and Reproductive Health Workshop (04/15/2008)
  • 2nd Conference of the Middle East and North Africa Newborn Screening Initiative: Partnerships for Sustainable Newborn Screening Infrastructure and Research Opportunities (04/14/2008)
  • Gordon Conference on Angiotensin (02/29/2008)
  • Second NIH Expert Panel on Development of a Uterine Fibroid Classification System (02/20/2008)
  • Developmental Vascular Biology Workshop (02/02/2008)
  • 2007

  • Research on Teen Dating Violence (12/05/2007)
  • November 2007 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (11/07/2007)
  • Regional Consultation on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: Evidence, Lessons, and Recommendations for Action (10/12/2007)
  • NCMRR Early Career Workshop (10/06/2007)
  • Pheochromocytoma: Patient-Oriented Educational Conference (09/29/2007)
  • Future of Male Contraception (09/28/2007)
  • Defining a Classification System for Uterine Leiomyoma (09/20/2007)
  • Ninth Annual Lawton Chiles International Lecture On Maternal and Child Health in the Americas (09/19/2007)
  • Membrane Biophysics of Fusion, Fission, and Rafts in Health and Disease (09/09/2007)
  • International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium Workshop (08/30/2007)
  • Second International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium Workshop (08/29/2007)
  • Antepartum Fetal Assessment: A Reevaluation (08/28/2007)
  • Extramural Associates (EA) Program Summer Residency Workshop (08/11/2007)
  • Summer Research Institute in Applied Child and Adolescent Development (08/11/2007)
  • Third Annual Summer Institute in Maternal-Fetal Pharmacology (08/04/2007)
  • Third Annual Summer Institute in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology (08/04/2007)
  • Medical Genetics and public health: The Moroccan experience - Opportunities for research collaboration (07/31/2007)
  • Gordon Research Conference on Inhibition of the Central Nervous System (07/27/2007)
  • National Children's Study Federal Consortium Meeting (07/25/2007)
  • June 2007 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (06/26/2007)
  • Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) First Release Conference (05/10/2007)
  • Primary Care Pediatric Obesity Prevention Interventions Investigator Meeting (04/26/2007)
  • NIH/USDA Workshop: Advantages of Agriculturally Important Domestic Species as Biomedical Models (04/20/2007)
  • English Language Learners (ELL) Research Agenda Conference (04/19/2007)
  • Medical Home Model for Children after Life-Threatening Illness or Injury: A National Experts' Conference (03/14/2007)
  • A Research Agenda for Getting Beyond the Plateau: Promoting Recovery through the Chronic Phase (03/07/2007)
  • Enhancing Rehabilitation Research in the South (ERRIS) Workshop (01/21/2007)
  • 2006

  • December 2006 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (12/05/2006)
  • Strengthening Newborn Screening in the Middle East and North Africa (11/16/2006)
  • The Effects of Electronic Media on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Development of Children and Adolescents (11/16/2006)
  • The Joint Symposium - Frontiers in 21st Century Biomedical Science (11/07/2006)
  • Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities: Contributions of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (10/24/2006)
  • The Art and Science of Endometriosis: Standardizing the Measurement of  Pain and Diagnostic Criteria (10/20/2006)
  • Science and Ecology of Early Development (SEED) Grantee Workshop (09/29/2006)
  • The Population Sciences and Agent-Based Methodology: An Answer to the Macro-Micro Link (09/27/2006)
  • Fifth Inter-Institute Workshop on Optical Imaging from Bench to Bedside (09/27/2006)
  • Eighth Annual Lawton Chiles International Lecture on Maternal and Child Health in the Americas (09/26/2006)
  • Developmental Epigenetics Workshop (09/22/2006)
  • May 2006 National Children's Study Advisory Committee Meeting (06/01/2006)
  • Pre-application Workshop:  Cooperative Multi-center Reproductive Medicine Network (U10), ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting (05/08/2006)
  • Pre-application Workshop:  Cooperative Multi-center Reproductive Medicine Network (U10), Society for Gynecologic Investigation 53rd Annual Meeting (03/23/2006)
  • January 2006 National Children's Study Advisory Committee Meeting (01/25/2006)
  • 2005

  • NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research --Biennial Training Workshop (12/06/2005)
  • National Children's Study Assembly Meeting (11/29/2005)
  • New Horizons in GnRH Research (11/11/2005)
  • International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium Workshop (09/28/2005)
  • September 2005 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (09/21/2005)
  • NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research Workshop: Linking Movement Science and Intervention (07/21/2005)
  • NICHD Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch Workshop: Optimizing Care and Long-term Outcome of Near-term Pregnancy and Near-term Newborn Infant - Agenda (07/19/2005)
  • NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research Workshop: Translating Defense and Civilian Technologies for Pediatric Critical Care and Rehabilitation (05/17/2005)
  • April 2005 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (04/28/2005)
  • 2004

  • The Future of Male Contraception Conference (10/02/2004)
  • September 2004 National Children's Study Federal Consortium Meeting (09/30/2004)
  • June 2004 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (06/29/2004)
  • Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA) Activities--Newborn Drug Development Initiative Workshop (03/30/2004)
  • March 2004 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (03/05/2004)
  • NICHD and American Academy of Pediatrics-- Workshop on Research in Neonatology (01/16/2004)
  • 2003

  • December 2003 National Children's Study Assembly Meeting (12/17/2003)
  • NICHD Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch--Fetal and Neonatal Growth and Development Meeting (12/16/2003)
  • December 2003 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (12/16/2003)
  • NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research-Biennial Training Workshop (12/10/2003)
  • NICHD Prevention Research and International Programs:  Conference on Vitamin D and Health in the 21st Century (10/10/2003)
  • September 2003 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (09/16/2003)
  • NICHD Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch Conference--From Bench to Bedside: Preventing Bilirubin-Induced Brain Injury (BIBI) in the Newborn and Kernicterus in the 21st Century (07/22/2003)
  • NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research: Physical Disabilities through the Lifespan Conference (07/22/2003)
  • June 2003 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (06/06/2003)
  • NICHD Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch Workshop:  Role of Genomic Imprinting, Confined Placental Mosaicism, and Uniparental Disomy in Fetal Growth and Beyond (05/16/2003)
  • NICHD Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch Workshop--Investigation of Fetal Origins of Adult Health in Twin Cohorts (04/15/2003)
  • Topical Microbicides Development and Evaluation Workshop (03/31/2003)
  • NICHD Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch Meeting--Long-Term Follow Up of Prenatal Drug Exposure: Challenges and Opportunities (03/24/2003)
  • March 2003 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (03/07/2003)
  • Fertility Regulation and Systemic Hormones in HIV-infected and at-risk Women (01/31/2003)
  • 2002

  • Critical Issues in Study Design of Research on Condoms and the Prevention of STIs (12/31/2002)
  • December 2002 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (12/18/2002)
  • December 2002 National Children's Study Assembly Meeting (12/18/2002)
  • December 2002 National Children's Study Federal Consortium Meeting (12/17/2002)
  • International Consultation on Longitudinal Cohort Studies (12/16/2002)
  • NICHD Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch Strategic Planning Workshop (12/06/2002)
  • Basic Science and Translational Research in Female Pelvic Floor Disorders (11/30/2002)
  • NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research: Training Program for Leadership in Rehabilitation Research (10/03/2002)
  • September 2002 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (09/13/2002)
  • June 2002 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (06/13/2002)
  • April 2002 National Children's Study Assembly Meeting (04/09/2002)
  • April 2002 National Children's Study Federal Consortium Meeting (04/08/2002)
  • April 2002 National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee Meeting (04/08/2002)
  • NICHD Prevention Research and International Programs:  Conference on Dietary Supplement Use in Women: Current Status and Future Directions (01/29/2002)
  • 2001

  • Relevance of Experimental Models to HIV Disease (11/30/2001)
  • October 2001 National Children's Study Federal Consortium Meeting (10/16/2001)
  • September 2001 National Children's Study Assembly Meeting (09/16/2001)
  • Natural Products in Microbicides and Contraceptives Conference (09/10/2001)
  • NIH ACC Scientific Conference:  Potential Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Autism and Related Disorders - Autism Brain Tissue Research Issues (09/07/2001)
  • NICHD Prevention Research and International Programs:  Conference on Dietary Supplement Use in Children:  Who, What, Why, and Where Do We Go From Here? (02/13/2001)
  • Workshop on Potential Clinical Applications for GnRH Antagonists (01/31/2001)
  • NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research Symposium: Medical Rehabilitation on the Move: Spotlight on Bioengineering (01/05/2001)
  • Upcoming Meetings