NCCIH Priorities for Natural Products Research* *Dedicated to Professor Dr. Douglas Kinghorn on the occasion of his 75th birthday

Planta Med DOI: 10.1055/a-1767-2226The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health is the lead agency within the U.S. Federal Government for complementary and integrative health, which includes natural products. Although NCCIH is one of the smaller components of the NIH, NCCIH funds a disproportionately high percentage of natural products research at NIH. This stems from the fact that NCCIH is the only NIH grant issuing component for which natural products are an explicit part of our mission. This perspective will provide an overview of the NCCIH mission and summarize NCCIH funding priorities for natural products research across basic and mechanistic as well as clinical sectors. These priorities are guided by our recently released Strategic Plan. A primary element of this new Plan is a focus on whole person health including how natural products and multicomponent therapeutic systems which often include them can help move individuals towards health restoration and promotion instead of the frequent focus on the treatment of diseases. [...] Georg Thieme Verlag KG Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart, GermanyArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents  |  Abstract
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