Learning More About NIH Research Directions and How You Can Provide Input: Highlighting Autoimmune Disease Research

Regular readers of this blog know that we often seek feedback on various grant policies and initiatives broadly effecting the extramural research community. As just a few examples from last year, we sought input on research misconduct regulations, care and use of laboratory cephalopods, foreign subaward agreements, postdoctoral training, and review of fellowship applications. There are also opportunities to weigh in on future directions for the many different disease-specific research areas NIH supports, which we typically do not discuss on this blog. Here, we wanted to briefly share some resources about these comment opportunities and how to be informed when they arise. As one recent example to highlight, the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health released a Request for Information seeking input on advancing autoimmune disease research. The feedback received will help shape a strategic plan guiding wider NIH efforts and priority research areas in the next phase of autoimmune disease research. They seek input on novel cross-cutting collaborative research areas, improving outcomes for individuals living with autoimmune diseases, developing a publicly accessible central repository for autoimmune disease research, and more. Comments may be submitted electronically through March 1, 2024. Along with a wide array of NIH grants data, many of NIH’s strategic plans are available on our Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) site. We strongly recommend researche...
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