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Model Organisms
for Biomedical Research |
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Information about national and international activities
and major resources that are being developed to facilitate biomedical
research using the animal models. |
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Assessing
and Improving Measures of Hot Flashes--Meeting Summary |
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Annual
Report of the Trans-NIH Sleep Research Coordinating Committee |
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The
NIH Pain Research Consortium |
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The NIH Pain Consortium is made up
of the many NIH Institutes and Centers with programs and activities
addressing pain research. The group is identifying emerging opportunities
and scientific gaps in pain research and promoting initiatives that
provide for multidisciplinary approaches and trans-NIH participation;
increasing the visibility of pain research nationally by informing
the extramural community, health care providers, and advocacy groups
about scientific advances in pain research; seeking input from these
communities to enable the NIH to devise the best research agenda for
the future; and providing a forum for the exchange of resource information
to increase collaborations among pain programs. |
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NIH
Special Interest Groups |
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NIH Inter-Institute Interest Groups are assemblies
of scientists with common research interests. These groups are divided
into seven broad, process oriented parent groups, or faculties, and
more than 30 smaller, more focused groups centered on particular research
models, subjects, or techniques. |
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Bioengineering
Consortium |
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The Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) is the focus
of bioengineering issues at the NIH and is composed of senior-level
representatives from each of the NIH centers, institutes, and divisions.
The Consortium also includes representatives of other federal agencies
concerned with biomedical research and development. |
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Biomaterials
and Medical Implant Science Coordinating Committee |
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The Biomaterials and Medical Implant Science Coordinating
Committee is a trans-NIH committee for exchanging information, communicating
ideas, and collaborating on biomaterials in medical implant science
and technology. |
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Mammalian
Gene Collection |
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The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) project is
a new effort by the NIH to generate full-length complementary DNA
(cDNA) resources. This project will provide publicly accessible resources
to the entire biomedical research community. The MGC project entails
the production of cDNA libraries and sequences, database and repository
development, as well as the support of research for improved library
construction, sequencing, and analytic technologies, all of which
are dedicated to the goal of obtaining a full set of human and other
mammalian full-length (open reading frame) sequences and clones of
expressed genes. |
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Cognitive
and Emotional Health Project: The Healthy Brain |
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Sponsored jointly by NIA, NINDS, and NIMH, the
goal of this project is to assess the state of epidemiologic research
on demographic, social and biologic determinants of cognitive and
emotional health in aging populations, and the pathways by which cognitive
and emotional health may reciprocally influence each other. |
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Bioformatics
at the NIH |
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Bioinformatics or biomedical computing is the
application of computer science and technology to address problems
in biology and medicine. Biomedical computing encompasses a wide range
of applications from information processing (storage, retrieval, and
analysis) to modeling biological processes. As computational capabilities
and resources continue to develop, the use of computer science and
technology by the biomedical community is increasing. The fusion of
biomedicine and computer technology offers substantial benefits to
all NIH institutes and centers in support of their general mission
of improving the quality of the nation's health by increasing biological
knowledge. The Web site contains information on the BISTI Consortium,
bioinformatics News and Events, a Calendar of related events, biomedical
computing Symposia, Funding Opportunities in bioinformatics, and General
Information about the field. |