Programs & Resources
NIH Common Fund
The NIH Common Fund is a set of bold initiatives aimed at accelerating medical research. These initiatives will address challenges that no single NIH institute could tackle alone, but the agency as a whole must undertake. The Roadmap identifies the most compelling opportunities in three arenas: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and reengineering the clinical research enterprise.
The Molecular Libraries and Imaging program offers biomedical researchers access to the large-scale screening capacity necessary to identify small molecules that can be optimized as chemical probes to study the functions of genes, cells, and biochemical pathways in health and disease. They may also be used by researchers in the public and private sectors to validate new drug targets, which could then move into the drug-development pipeline.
