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NIH is participating in the Smart Health and Biomedical Research Interagency Program with National Science Foundation that focuses on era of artificial intelligence and advanced data science.
A small percentage of R01 and U01 grantees fail to publish in a timely manner. Factors including human research, clinical trial research, child research, not being an early stage investigator, and conducting behavioral and social sciences research in…
NIH awarded grants for firearm injury and mortality prevention research.
Research on childhood obesity intervention strategies.
RADx will establish COVID-19 testing technologies.
This commentary describes the various initiatives of the National Institutes of Health to address these social, behavioral, economic, and health disparities impacts of the pandemic, the findings from which can improve our response to the current pand…
PhenX COVID-19 Crowdsourcing Effort launched to help create collections of recommended measurement protocols for COVID-19 research.
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and its partner Institutes—the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on…
A new quick turn-around opportunity for administrative supplements has been published today. As part of NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long Term (HEAL) Initiative, NIH will support supplements to current HEAL awards to address the challenges for peop…