The NIH Roadmap

NIH Roadmap for Medical Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research is a collection of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the Nation's medical research capabilities and improve the translation of research into practice. As described below, the Roadmap consists of three major themes: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and reengineering the clinical research ent...

NIH Roadmap Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives

A recent Perspective [1] suggested that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap interdisciplinary research initiatives (http:// nihroadmap.nih.gov/interdisciplinary/) embrace interdisciplinary teams without recognizing the importance of interdisciplinary individuals, and that these initiatives recognize something other than scientific questions as drivers of interdisciplinary research. ...

Family medicine, the NIH, and the medical-research roadmap: perspectives from inside the NIH.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine has had little engagement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and it is unclear what NIH officials think about this. METHODS Purposive sampling identified 13 key informants at NIH for open-ended, semi-structured interviews. Evaluation was by content analysis. RESULTS NIH officials expressed the perception that family physicians have strong...

A Decade of Discovery: The NIH Roadmap and Common Fund

Practice-based research--"Blue Highways" on the NIH roadmap.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk—times neither day nor night—the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it’s that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open...