IC Directors’ Meeting Highlights — Thursday, August 30, 2018

Announcements

Dr. Collins provided a recap from the Senate HELP Committee hearing on 8/23, and gave an overview of the NIH efforts to assess and address workplace harassment.

HEAL Trials Networks

Drs. Austin and Koroshetz presented about challenges facing development of new pain medications, goals of the HEAL Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network, and goals of the HEAL Pain Effectiveness Research Network (HEAL Pain-ERN).

Toward Interoperability of NIH Cloud Platforms

Dr. Jim Anderson presented on the current NIH cloud platforms, and ongoing and proposed consensus building for unified standards.