Investigator-initiated Research On Neuroscience Informatics (Neuroinformatics)

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Investigator-initiated Research On Neuroscience
Informatics (Neuroinformatics)

• Chair
• Office on Neuroinformatics
• National Institute of Mental Health

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Nature of the work

• Health and disorders of the nervous system, from
  the genetic to whole systems level
• Behavioral Sciences
• Computer Science
• Information Science
• Neurology
• Medical Instrumentation

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Development of

• new web based databases,
• analytical tools, and
• knowledge management systems to foster sharing of
  data

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Award mechanisms

• NIH Research Project Grant (R01)
• Program Project Grant (P01)
• Exploratory Center Grant (P20)

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Mechanisms

• R01 scientific questions to be pursued and the
  unique contribution of each potential group
  member be explicitly stated
• P01 and P20 for several investigators using
  different approaches to focus on a common problem

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Program Project (P01)

• A long-term multidisciplinary research program
• A Program Project is required to have a minimum
  of three projects

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Program Project (P20)

• support feasibility studies
• combination of informatics research and basic
  and/or clinical neuroscience research components
• have a minimum of three projects
• lead to specialized or comprehensive centers

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Procedure

• Letter of intent August 22, 2005
• Application due September 22, 2005

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Initial Interest Group Modeling SARA Data

• Hari Eswaran, Curtis Lowery, Hubert Preissl -
  UAMS
• Coskun Bayrak, Yupo Chan, Doug Wilson - UALR

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Interested party - UALR

• M. Eduard Tudoreanu - visualization/user
  interface
• Xiaowei Xu - databases, querying approaches,
  information retrieval, and data integration
  through the development of integrated analytical
  tools, synthesis, and tools for electronic
  collaboration

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Interested party - UAMS

• Sunny Anand - long-term effects of pain in early
  infancy

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Interested Party - NCTR

• Weida Tong - omics data 3D reconstruction tool
  for data obtained from electron microscopy