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NIH Announces Seven New Common Fund Initiatives

2010-03-09 09:56:05

NIH ANNOUNCES SEVEN NEW COMMON FUND INITIATIVES

By Tony Mazzaschi, AAMC Washington Highlights, February 26, 2010

Director of the NIH Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., February 25 announced seven new scientific initiatives that will be funded through the NIH Common Fund. The Fund was created to encourage collaborative research programs across the NIH institutes and centers and to accomplish work that no single institute could do alone. The seven
initiatives all are scheduled to begin during FY 2010 and are estimated to utilize a total of $17.8 million from the Common Fund in FY 2010, with additional funds likely to be allocated in future years. The seven new scientific initiatives are:

Library of Integrated Network-based

Cellular Signatures Program

Protein Capture Reagents Program

Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program

Science of Behavior Change Program

NIH Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Center

Global Health Program

Regulatory Science Program

* Complete article at:
http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/washhigh/2010/022610/start.htm#1
* Complete NIH press release at:
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/feb2010/od-25.htm


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