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About the Common Fund

The NIH Common Fund supports a series of cross-cutting, trans-NIH research programs:

Programs

 

The NIH Common Fund is coordinated by the Office of Strategic Coordination, one of the five offices of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) within the Office of the Director.

Highlights

July 8, 2010

New FY11 Common Fund Programs

New research programs, supported through the NIH Common Fund, are being launched in Fiscal Year 2011 to address critical needs and opportunities in a number of cross-cutting areas:

Planning Activities in FY2011

Overcoming Obstacles in Research Culture: Q&A with Dr. Xavier Cagigas

The Common Fund’s Interdisciplinary Research Consortium proves successful at facilitating interdisciplinary approaches that dissolve academic department boundaries within academic institutions, increase cooperation between institutions, train scientists working at the interface of disciplines, and build bridges between biological sciences and behavioral and social sciences. Read the story…

A “SlipChip” designed to screen a protein against 16 different precipitants using the free interface diffusion (FID) method of crystallization. Reproduced with permission from the ACS.June 17, 2010

Tiny Device Helps View Protein Structure

Dr. Rustem Ismagilov and colleagues at the University of Chicago have engineered a tiny microfluidic device called the “SlipChip” that optimizes the conditions for proteins to form crystals, enabling researchers to study how the proteins function normally in cells and become disrupted in disease. Read more…

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NEW! Program Features

NIH-Wellcome Trust Announce New H3 Africa Project – The National Institutes of Health and Wellcome Trust have partnered to establish a new program with Common Fund support that will be managed by the National Human Genome Research Institute to initiate population-based genetic studies in Africa of common, non-communicable and communicable disorders. Read the press release…

NIH Common Fund hosts a Workshop on Independent Research Fellows to identify new ways to reduce the time to independence for biomedical researchers. Read the workshop report…

Multimedia

No Longer Germ Warfare. An interview with Dr. Julie Segre, NIH Intramural Researcher, The Human Microbiome Project

NIH Common Fund and the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)

American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)

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This page last reviewed: August 26, 2010