NCCIH Priorities for Natural Products Research
Planta Med DOI: 10.1055/a-1767-2226The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is the lead agency within the U. S. federal government for complementary and integrative health research, which includes
natural products. Although NCCIH is one of the smaller components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NCCIH funds a disproportionately high percentage of natural products research at
NIH. This stems from NCCIH being the only NIH grant issuing component that includes natural products as an explicit part of its mission. This perspective provides an overview of the NCCIH
mission and summarizes NCCIH funding priorities for natural products research across basic and mechanistic as well as clinical sectors. These priorities are guided by the recently released
NCCIH strategic plan. A primary element of this new plan is a focus on whole person health instead of the frequent focus on the treatment of diseases. The NCCIH focus on whole person health
includes how natural products and multicomponent therapeutic approaches, which often include natural products, can help move individuals towards health restoration and promotion. [...] Georg Thieme Verlag KG Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart, GermanyArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents | Abstract
Source: Planta Medica - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Still, Patrick Chen, Wen Weber, Wendy Hopp, D. Craig Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
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