Through its readiness and recovery efforts, the NIH is helping the Biomedical Community respond to natural disasters. While such disasters may be inevitable, the setbacks they present to medical research hopefully need not be.  (more...)

Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., the director of the National Institutes of Health, September 24 announced his plans to step down at the end of October 2008 to pursue writing projects and explore other professional opportunities.  (more...)

While you wait for the Adobe forms, download the FOA and develop your research plan today!  (more...)

After an extensive year-long effort, preliminary implementation plans for the 2009 through 2010 calendar years are now available for the implementation of the Enhancement of Peer Review Activity.  (more...)

On September 11, 2008 the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property heard testimony on a proposed amendment to reverse current law requiring NIH-funded research be publicly accessible. The NIH Public Access Policy remains unchanged, and complete compliance with the Policy is expected of all NIH-funded researchers.  (more...)

To encourage the transition of early career investigators to research independence, a new NIH policy will adopt more broadly the approach used by the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.  (more...)

The Center for Scientific Review (CSR), whose national database of volunteer reviewers now includes over 3,000 highly qualified investigators, invites scientific societies to recommend exemplary reviewers to serve in review groups.  (more...)