NSFNIH Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: NSFNIH Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes


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NSF-NIH Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer
Institutes

• Goal To attract individuals to careers in
  bioengineering and/or bioinformatics.
• Eligibility
• Late undergraduates and early graduate students
• Students from host university and other
  institutions
• Special emphasis participation of special
  populations
• Program Overview
• Curriculum typically spans two summers
• Activities include for-credit coursework,
  research experiences, and industrial internships
  or seminars

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New NIBIB Policy

• NIBIB gives special consideration for funding to
  research grant applications that bridge and
  integrate the life and physical sciences.

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New Investigator Policy

• Grant Applications by Investigators new to the
  NIH will be identified.
• New Investigators who have scores within 5
  percentile points of the pay line will be funded.
• This program will improve the success of new
  applicants for R01 awards.
• This policy will apply only to Program
  Announcement and unsolicited R01 applications.

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Medicine in the 21st Century
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Enabling Technologies for the Future of Health
Care
BioMEMS and Microfluidics Technologies Genomic,
proteomic, metabolomic, and cell analysis
High-throughput
techniques for studying biological networks
Low-cost alternatives to
macro-scale devices
Major Trends in Health Care Shift toward
management of chronic illness Escalating costs of
health care Aging population Persistence of
health disparities
Major Trends in Biomedical Sciences Risk
assessment based on molecular knowledge Preemptio
n of disease before it strikes
Zerhouni, JAMA, 2005 294 (11) 1352-1358
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Future Innovation Quantum Projects
Definition Highly-focused, collaborative
research and development projects that require
technological approaches and will result in
significant (quantum) improvements in healthcare
in 7-10 years.
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Quantum Projects

• RFA-EB-06-001 released November 18, 2005
• Letters of intent due January 20, 2006
• Applications due February 21, 2006
• Phase I 400-700k/year for 3 years using P20
  mechanism
• Established Quantum Grants Committee from NIBIB
  program and review staff
• Pre-application web/teleconference held

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Point-of-Care Testing

• Changes in health care delivery
• Patient-centered approaches
• Reduction in dependence on hospital as focus of
  clinical care (greater emphasis on primary care,
  home health care)
• Increased use of internet
• Focus on reducing health costs
• Need to improve health care accessibility
• Technologies to enable complex
• lab-based testing in outpatient setting
• Low-cost solutions
• informatics
• Emphasis on improving outcomes through rapid
  analysis

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NIBIB/NHLBI/NSF Workshop Improving Health Care
Accessibility through Point-of-Care Technologies
Technologies sensors and microsystems, low-cost
imaging, noninvasive monitoring and
telehealth/informatics Health Care Settings
primary care, EMS, home/community-based,
developing countries
April 11-12, 2006 www.capconcorp.com/nibib-pointof
care
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Image-Guided Interventions

• There is a critical demand for integrated IGI
  systems that can respond to growing needs.
• We are at an important crossroad and can act as a
  champion of image-guided interventions.
• There is a scientific responsibility to
  accelerate the growth of IGI technology and
  minimally invasive treatments.