NIH Roadmap for Medical Research

► Soon after becoming Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Elias Zerhouni, M.D., developed a proposal to chart the “NIH Roadmap for Medical Research” (Roadmap) for the 21st century.  This proposal was designed to “transform the nation’s medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside,” and to identify “major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single institute at NIH could tackle alone, but that the agency still needed to address.”  Roadmap initiatives are now funded by the newly established NIH “Common Fund.”

► On October 20, 2006, NIH issued a “Request for Information (RFI): To Solicit Input and Ideas for Roadmap Trans-NIH Strategic Initiatives” (Notice Number: NOT-OD-07-011)

• See AAI response to RFI: To Solicit Input and Ideas for Roadmap Trans-NIH Strategic Initiatives (11/17/06)

► On April 22, 2008, NIH issued a “Request for Information (RFI): To Solicit Ideas for Common Fund / Roadmap Trans-NIH Strategic Initiatives” (Notice Number: NOT-RM-08-014)

• See Recommendation of The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Regarding Roadmap Initiatives for FY 2011 (5/30/08)
   
• See all of the RFI Comments Results