Weigh in on Ideas for NIH Common Fund Programs

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund supports exceptionally innovative programs that are inherently high-risk but have the potential for high-payoff by catalyzing research across all of NIH and in the biomedical research community.

New ideas for Common Fund programs are identified annually by internal and external scientists and stakeholders. They are now asking for input on these ideas to help shape new programs for 2013.

The NIH wants to know which ideas you think have the potential to fundamentally change how they think about, support, or do research in a specific field, or to create a new field all together.

Provide your input today: http://commonfund.nih.gov/strategicplanning

The feedback period is open until Wednesday, September 14, 2011.

The NIH Common Fund encourages collaboration and supports a series of exceptionally high impact, trans-NIH programs. These programs are supported by the Common Fund, and managed by the NIH Office of the Director in partnership with the various NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices. Additional information about the NIH Common Fund can be found at http://commonfund.nih.gov.