Collaborating with NIH Intramural Investigators at the Clinical Center

Episode # 105
Uploaded: August 1, 2012
Running Time: 2:58

CROWN: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.

CROWN: The National Institutes of Health wants to enhance its research collaborations with external partners. The Clinical Center has launched a new website that illustrates the hospital's special research resources and outlines the next steps for extramural researchers interested in working with NIH intramural investigators. The website launch coincides with the release of an Intent to Publish that describes a new grant titled, "Opportunities for Collaborative Research at the NIH Clinical Center." The purpose of the Intent to Publish is to solicit applications from teams of extramural investigators and internal NIH investigators to conduct collaborative translational research projects that are aligned with NIH efforts to enhance the translation of basic biological discoveries into clinical applications that improve health. Clinical Center Director, Dr. John. I. Gallin says:

GALLIN: We're opening the doors to try to promote the interaction between the outside investigators and the [NIH] investigators here at the Clinical Center, and to allow [the outside investigators] to come here to do to studies with patients that they may not be able to do in their home institutions.

CROWN: Extramural investigators may access Clinical Center resources through a formal funding relationship with the NIH, such as a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement. For example, the new grant may be one mechanism. The web site offers a "Collaborator's Toolkit" that answers such questions about funding opportunities, as well as how to identify an NIH intramural investigator in order to initiate a partnership and what resources are available in the Clinical Center.

GALLIN: What this new website is going to do is going to tell people what studies we have, what kinds of research we're doing, what kind of resources we have that they could access in terms of equipment and technologies. For example, we have a special resource for making candidate drugs for studies when industry might not have particular interest in an idea. We'll be able to carry that idea forward.

CROWN: Find more information online at the Collaborating with NIH Intramural Investigators at the Clinical Center web site at clinicalcenter.nih.gov/translational-research-resources/index.html. From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Service.

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