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Research Support

Grants are available for a wide range of informatics-related research activities including: representation of medical knowledge in computers; organization and retrieval issues for image databases; enhancement of human intellectual capacities through virtual reality, dynamic modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning; medical decision-making; linguistic analyses of medical languages and nomenclatures; investigations of topics relevant to health information or library science; biotechnology informatics issues; and informatics for disaster management. Conference grants support scientific meetings on topics of interest to the National Library of Medicine.

Eligibility: Public or private, non-profit or for-profit institutions engaged in health-related education, research, or patient care.

     Research Grants:
     Investigator-initiated project grants (R01, PA 04-141)
     Small project grants (R03, PA 03-108)
     Informatics for Disaster Management grants (R21, PA 03-178)
     Exploratory/Developmental grants (R21, PA 03-107)
     IAIMS pilot study grants (R03, PAR 02-080)
     IAIMS testing & evaluation grants (R24, PAR 02-082)
     Biomedical Information Science & Technology (BISTI) grants (R21/R33, PAR 03-106)
     Research supplement grants (PA 01-079, PA 01-080, PA 04-126)
     Conference grants (R13, PAR 03-176)
     NLM Support for Other NIH Grant Programs

Application Procedures: New Research grant applications use the PHS 398 application form and are accepted at the standard deadline dates (February 1, June 1 and October 1) as indicated in the instructions.

Last updated: 25 August 2004
First published: 20 November 2003
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