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HealthResearchFunding.Org -March 2010
The National Health Council (NHC) is partnering with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Programs in developing a database that would make information on unfunded but worthwhile NIH research proposals available to the NHC’s members and other potential funders of health research. The goal of this project is to create a resource that will result in an increase of health research funding and improve the health of people with chronic conditions.
NHC staff and Humanitas, an experienced health IT firm, have refined how the system will work for researchers and funding organizations and have begun development of the site. The next stage will be to work with the scientific officers and research directors from NHC member patient advocacy organizations to test the site. Once testing is complete, NIH will notify all non-funded applicants deemed significant and of scientific and technical merit of the availability of the database.
The collaborative research database program was sponsored by Pfizer Inc and the National Institutes of Health.
Staff Contact: Marc Boutin, JD, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
