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NIH Announces Seven New Common Fund Initiatives
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