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NHC Opens New Door for Research Funding -September 2010
The National Health Council’s exciting new web database HealthResearchFunding.Org is nearing completion! The database, which was created with input from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Programs, will make information on worthwhile but unfunded research proposals available to NHC members and other potential funding sources of health research. The goal is to capitalize on this unique opportunity for collaboration to foster support for new research that will provide hope to patients and their families for new and better treatments.
Chief scientific/medical officers and researchers from NHC member patient advocacy organizations and representatives from NIH concluded beta-testing on the website in July. The site is now open to all NHC member patient advocacy organizations.
These NHC members are strongly encouraged to add their own research proposal requests to the database or summaries of potential research where there is a possibility of collaboration with other organizations. In addition, if the organizations have peer-reviewed proposals, deem them of scientific and technical merit, but are not able to fund the research, the organizations are urged to invite the applicants to register on the site and add their abstracts to the database.
The NHC and NIH will be reaching out to the research community, utilizing a number of different communications vehicles. The intent is to expand access to the database to corporations and private investors after the site has been populated with proposals.
HealthResearchFunding.Org was sponsored by Pfizer Inc and the National Institutes of Health.
