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NCI's Intramural Research Program (IRP), which conducts research at NIH research laboratories and clinics, provides a unique venue for innovation, translation, and application, and complements our robust Extramural Research Program. 
The intramural environment promotes and encourages innovation and serves as a proving ground for longer-term, high-risk/high-impact projects. This is possible because the IRP can make long-term funding commitments and support.
The Program:
- Provides exceptional translational research opportunities that exploit the close linkages among investigators conducting basic, clinical, and population research.
- Allows immediate application of technological advances to biomedical research and enables rapid response to urgent public health needs.
Clinical researchers have access to the facilities of the NIH Clinical Center, and with them, the quality medical care that is provided without charge to patients enrolled in NCI clinical trial protocols.
IRP plans include objectives to:
- Enhance the unique value of the Program by facilitating more interactions and collaborations among intramural investigators.
- Increase interactions and collaborations with extramural investigators, and expand interactions with the public and private sectors.
- Develop innovative new technologies and approaches for cancer discovery, prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Facilitate the development of a unique clinical research program for delivery of novel interventions for prevention and therapy.
- Foster training to ensure excellence and to address the need for new, interdisciplinary approaches to cancer research.
- Implement a review and reward structure that will encourage innovation and collaboration while maintaining scientific excellence.
The following will strengthen the work of NCI's Intramural Research Program:
- The opening of the new NIH Clinical Center facility in 2004
- The establishment of new consortia linking extramural and intramural investigators
- The development of new technologies
- New efforts to foster interdisciplinary approaches to scientific discovery
The Program's unique contributions will help us meet our Challenge Goal to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer.
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