August 26, 2024
We occasionally look at the breakdown of our supported workforce by educational degree to gain further insights into topics like age at first award, funding inequalities, and demographic diversity. Here we focus on the number of applications and awards by degree type over the past ten fiscal years (FYs) to see how researchers with these varied professional backgrounds are included in our grant portfolio.
August 15, 2024
Today NIH issued a decision matrix for assessing potential foreign interference as part of its ongoing efforts to be transparent about its policies and procedures. The decision matrix builds on the detailed information already available on our site and also offers additional detail as to how NIH considers whether to contact institutions to request additional information.
August 12, 2024
Biomedical research has generated millions of datasets and we are issuing a $500,000 challenge to get the most out of them. The 2024 DataWorks! Prize invites you to conduct a secondary research analysis project that generates new scientific findings from existing datasets.
August 7, 2024
The NIH Office of Science Policy recently released a centralized NIH policy resource illustrating the applicability of existing policies to artificial intelligence (AI), including policies related to participant protections, intellectual property, peer review, and many other topics.
July 29, 2024
In March 2023, we showed that the number of Black and Hispanic mentored career development (K) applicants and awardees steadily increased from fiscal years (FYs) 2010 to 2022, though the overall numbers remained quite low.
July 29, 2024
Last year, we showed that there were slight improvements in the funding and success rates for Black/African American and Hispanic researchers in fiscal year (FY) 2022. The race-ethnicity gaps also narrowed over the past few years, though the overall number of Black/African American and Hispanic applicants remained low.
July 25, 2024
NIH is dedicated to improving the postdoctoral experience to ensure the biomedical research enterprise can retain and attract our nation’s brightest scientific minds and remain globally competitive. Today, we seek your input to help us implement specific Advisory Committee to the NIH Director recommendations to re-envision the postdoctoral experience.
July 3, 2024
In recent years, we have supported record high numbers of early stage investigators (ESIs) designated on new (type 1) R01-equivalent awards. Today, we are pleased to share an update on the number of ESIs supported in FY 2023 with the addition of data on age.
June 6, 2024
On June 25, 2024, the modernized ClinicalTrials.gov will become the singular website experience. This major milestone is part of National Library of Medicine’s multi-year ClinicalTrials.gov modernization effort, which has been guided by stakeholder engagement, input from the NLM Board of Regents Public Service Working Group, and a user-centered design approach.
June 4, 2024
We are determined to make access to and expertise in cloud computing more widely available across the NIH research community. For those interested in using cloud technology without making an initial long-term commitment, NIH Cloud Lab enables researchers to try cloud capabilities at no cost in a secure, NIH-approved environment.
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