Trans-NIH Scientific Initiatives

Information about research initiatives that involve multiple institutes and centers, including workshop reports and recommendations from the community to the NIH, implementation plans, and funding opportunities.

• Model Organisms for Biomedical Research
  Information about national and international activities and major resources that are being developed to facilitate biomedical research using the animal models.
• Assessing and Improving Measures of Hot Flashes—Meeting Summary
• Annual Report of the Trans-NIH Sleep Research Coordinating Committee
• The NIH Pain Research Consortium
  The NIH Pain Consortium is made up of the many NIH Institutes and Centers with programs and activities addressing pain research. The group is identifying emerging opportunities and scientific gaps in pain research and promoting initiatives that provide for multidisciplinary approaches and trans-NIH participation; increasing the visibility of pain research nationally by informing the extramural community, health care providers, and advocacy groups about scientific advances in pain research; seeking input from these communities to enable the NIH to devise the best research agenda for the future; and providing a forum for the exchange of resource information to increase collaborations among pain programs.
• NIH Scientific Interest Groups
  NIH Inter-Institute Interest Groups are assemblies of scientists with common research interests. These groups are divided into seven broad, process oriented parent groups, or faculties, and more than 30 smaller, more focused groups centered on particular research models, subjects, or techniques.
• Bioengineering Consortium
  The Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) is the focus of bioengineering issues at the NIH and is composed of senior-level representatives from each of the NIH centers, institutes, and divisions. The Consortium also includes representatives of other federal agencies concerned with biomedical research and development.
• Biomaterials and Medical Implant Science Coordinating Committee
  The Biomaterials and Medical Implant Science Coordinating Committee is a trans-NIH committee for exchanging information, communicating ideas, and collaborating on biomaterials in medical implant science and technology.
• Mammalian Gene Collection
  The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) project is a new effort by the NIH to generate full-length complementary DNA (cDNA) resources. This project will provide publicly accessible resources to the entire biomedical research community. The MGC project entails the production of cDNA libraries and sequences, database and repository development, as well as the support of research for improved library construction, sequencing, and analytic technologies, all of which are dedicated to the goal of obtaining a full set of human and other mammalian full-length (open reading frame) sequences and clones of expressed genes.
• Cognitive and Emotional Health Project: The Healthy Brain
  Sponsored jointly by NIA, NINDS, and NIMH, the goal of this project is to assess the state of epidemiologic research on demographic, social and biologic determinants of cognitive and emotional health in aging populations, and the pathways by which cognitive and emotional health may reciprocally influence each other.
• Bioformatics at the NIH
  Bioinformatics or biomedical computing is the application of computer science and technology to address problems in biology and medicine. Biomedical computing encompasses a wide range of applications from information processing (storage, retrieval, and analysis) to modeling biological processes. As computational capabilities and resources continue to develop, the use of computer science and technology by the biomedical community is increasing. The fusion of biomedicine and computer technology offers substantial benefits to all NIH institutes and centers in support of their general mission of improving the quality of the nation's health by increasing biological knowledge. The Web site contains information on the BISTI Consortium, bioinformatics News and Events, a Calendar of related events, biomedical computing Symposia, Funding Opportunities in bioinformatics, and General Information about the field.
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