NIH Roadmap

Introduction

In May 2002, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. created the NIH Roadmap as a set of guidelines and directions for future medical research. The reason which this initiative was called for was that there were major research areas which crossed the boundaries of the various NIH Institutes and Centers.

The NIH Roadmap can provide investigators with a unique insight into NIH Priorities for their research portfolio in the near future as well as a source of Roadmap-specific funding opportunities.

NEWS

The National Institutes of Health held an NIH Roadmap Meeting featuring Dr. Elias Zerhouni and other senior NIH officials on February 27, 2004.

The archived webcast is available at:

http://www.webconferences.com/nihroadmap/

The NIH Roadmap Themes and Initiatives

The NIH Roadmap has been organized by the NIH into three themes each with their own initiative subtopics. Please find a structure for these below:

• New Pathways to Discovery
  Building Blocks, Biological Pathways, and Networks
  • Molecular Libraries & Molecular Imaging  
  • Structural Biology
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Nanomedicine
    
• Research Teams of the Future
  • High-Risk Research
  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Public-Private Partnerships
    
• Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise
  
  • Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise