NIH ROADMAP FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

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NIH ROADMAP FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

• RESEARCH TEAMS OF THE FUTURE

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Research Teams of the Future

• Goals
• Encourage Multi- and Inter-disciplinary teams
• Support larger, coordinated, resource sharing
  teams
• Preserve investigator initiated strategy
• Promote investigators to take creative,
  unexplored avenues of research

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Research Teams of the Future

• High-Risk Research
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Private-Public Partnerships

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Research Teams of the Future

• NIH Directors Pioneer Award
• Criteria
• Evidence of scientific innovation and creativity
• Testimony of intrinsic motivation, enthusiasm and
  intellectual energy
• Potential for scientific leadership and evidence
  of, or potential for, effective communication
  skills

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Research Teams of the Future

• Interdisciplinary Research
• Planning grants for interdisciplinary research
  centers (P20 Centers)
• Innovative training programs
• Development of methodologies aimed at
  integrating behavioral and social science into
  interdisciplinary research

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Research Teams of the Future

• P20 Exploratory Centers for Interdisciplinary
  Research
• Lower organizational barriers that impede
  research
• Enable scientists to conduct research across
  disciplines

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Research Teams of the Future

• P20 Exploratory Centers
• Increasing complexity of questions requires
  multidisciplinary research and interdisciplinary
  research
• Combining aspects of individual disciplines to
  provide new approaches to solving problems

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Research Teams of the Future

• P20 Exploratory CentersExamples
• Behavioral Epidemiology
• Integrate theoretical methodological and analytic
  aspects of economic sciences, population
  sciences, and behavioral sciences to develop a
  new approach to discovery and intervention in
  youth vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
• Imaging Genetics
• Draw from genomics, image analysis, statistics,
  and neuropsychiatry to improve diagnosis and
  treatment of mental illness and other brain
  disorders

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Research Teams of the Future

• P20 Exploratory CentersExamples
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Integrate new disciplines to address the fast
  growing problem of antimicrobial resistance using
  novel new strategies developed by
  interdisciplinary research teams using long-term
  strategies
• Obesity research
• Integrate disciplines of neuroendocrinology,
  genetics, and lipid intermediate metabolism,
  and clinical epidemiology to better treat and
  prevent obesity

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Research Teams of the Future

• Interdisciplinary Training Programs
• New funding mechanisms
• Support interdisciplinary work from undergraduate
  students through postdoctoral researchers
• Provide foundation for diverse interdisciplinary
  scientific teams necessary for success of future
  endeavors
• Include short and long term
• Training
• Curriculum
• Methodological development

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Research Teams of the Future

• Interdisciplinary Training Programs-Examples
• Clinical Research Experience for Engineers
• Undergraduate engineers engage in clinical
  research projects with clinical and
  bioengineering mentorship,
• Regenerative Sciences Training Program
• Biologists, engineers, and clinicians augment
  training via didactic and research experiences
  with focus on musculoskeletal systems
• Clinical Biodetective Training
• Trainees to develop novel methods for detection
  of disease states, markers of good health, and
  therapeutic markers

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Research at the Interface of the Life and
Physical Sciences Bridging the Sciences

• Conference Objectives
• To identify opportunities at the interface that
  could result in major advances
• To develop approaches to bridge the sciences
• Co-sponsored by NIH and NSF
• Held at NIH campus on November 9, 2004
• For more information www.nibib.nih.gov