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NCRR Publishes Strategic
Plan, Clinical Directory
NCRR has released two new publications, one of which
will help the Center establish its future priorities,
and the other listing research resources that are available
to clinical investigators.
 NCRR’s
2004-2008 Strategic Plan: Challenges and Critical
Choices will guide NCRR’s programmatic activities
for the next five years. The strategic plan was developed
from input provided through NCRR’s Web site and
from participants who attended a two-day Strategic Planning
Forum in Arlington, Virginia, in September 2003. The
2004-2008 Strategic Plan lists NCRR’s
guiding principles and provides goals and objectives
related to clinical research resources and networks;
informatics and computational biology; nonhuman models
for biomedical research; emerging technologies and instrumentation;
research capacity building; training and education;
research partnerships; and communications.
The 2004 edition of NCRR’s Clinical Research
Resources Directory provides information about
the resources supported by NCRR’s Division for
Clinical Research Resources. Included in the directory
are listings for the more than 80 General Clinical Research
Centers, which offer clinical investigators specialized
research environments for conducting sophisticated patient-oriented
research. The directory also contains listings for the
Islet Cell Resource Consortium, which distributes human
pancreatic islets for transplantation into patients
with type 1 diabetes; the National Disease Research
Interchange, which distributes normal and diseased human
tissues for laboratory research studies; and the National
Gene Vector Laboratories, which distribute clinical-grade
vectors for human gene transfer protocols.
Both publications, as well as all other NCRR publications,
are available on the Publications, Plans, and Reports page of NCRR’s Web site.
The publications also can be obtained free-of-charge
from the Office of Science Policy and Public Liaison,
NCRR/NIH, One Democracy Plaza, Room 978, 6701 Democracy
Boulevard, MSC 4874, Bethesda, MD 20892-4874; telephone:
301-435-0888; fax: 301-480-3558; e-mail: info@ncrr.nih.gov.
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