RESEARCH TEAMS OF THE FUTURE Working Groups and Co-Chairs

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RESEARCH TEAMS OF THE FUTUREWorking Groups and
Co-Chairs

• Interdisciplinary Research
• Patricia Grady, NINR
• Ken Olden, NIEHS
• Larry Tabak, NIDCR
• High-risk Research
• Ellie Ehrenfeld, NIAID
• Stephen Straus, NCCAM
• Public-Private Partnerships
• Andy von Eschenbach, NCI
• Richard Hodes, NIA

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Research Teams of the FutureInterdisciplinary
Research

• Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D.

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Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research

• Just definitions either prevent or put an end
  to a dispute
• Nathaniel Emm

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Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research

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Work on
Multidisciplinary
common problem
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Interaction
Interdisciplinary
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forges new discipline
B
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More is different

• P.W. Anderson, Science
  177, 393-396, 1972

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Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research will be
Required to Solve the Puzzle of Complex
Diseases and Conditions
Genes Behavior Diet/Nutrition Infectious
agents Environment Society ???
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Challenges to Interdisciplinary Research

• The current system of academic advancement favors
  the independent investigator
• Most institutions house scientists in discrete
  departments
• Interdisciplinary science requires
  interdisciplinary peer-review
• Project management and oversight is currently
  performed by discrete ICs
• Interdisciplinary research teams take time to
  assemble and require unique resources

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Research Teams of the FutureCurrent Roadmap RFAs

• Interdisciplinary Research
• Meetings and Networks for Methodological
  Development in Interdisciplinary Research
• Training for a New Interdisciplinary Research
  Workforce
• Supplements for Methodological Innovations in the
  Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Interdisciplinary Health Research Training
  Behavior, Environment and Biology
• Short Programs for Interdisciplinary Research
  Training
• Curriculum Development Award in Interdisciplinary
  Research
• Exploratory Centers (P20) for Interdisciplinary
  Research
• Public/Private Partnerships
• High Risk Research
• NIH Director's Pioneer Award

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Exploratory Centers (P20) for Interdisciplinary
Research

• Purpose to plan exploratory centers that
  overcome barriers to conducting
  interdisciplinary research
• How? Applicant organizations must describe their
  plans to facilitate interdisciplinary research

• How the institution will distribute credit for
  direct (and indirect) costs to reflect the
  contributions of different components
• How the institution will recognize the
  contributions of the research team beyond the
  Principal Investigator
• How the institution attends to the careers of
  "interstitial" team members who play important
  roles in interdisciplinary research, but who are
  not tenure track or eligible/appropriate to be
  principal investigators on research grants.

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Supplements for Methodological Innovations in the
Behavioral and Social Sciences

• Purpose to develop innovative methodology
  (research design, data collection techniques,
  measurement, and data analysis techniques) in
  social and behavioral sciences research.
• What?
• New technologies and the analytical complexities
  associated with the integration of behavioral,
  social, genetic, and biomedical data
• Improved methods for performing research on
  diverse populations or on potentially sensitive
  or covert behaviors such as drug use, abuse, and
  violence
• Innovative experimental designs to study how
  changes in economic, social, environmental,
  physical, or political context affect all aspects
  of ongoing research
• Development and integration of behavioral and
  social sciences measures with those of the
  biomedical disciplines

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• Research Teams of the Future
• Training, Career Development and High Risk
  Research

Patricia A. Grady, Ph.D., R.N.
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Transforming Research Training Interdisciplinary
research training is a prerequisite to
interdisciplinary research.
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• Transforming Research Training means
• Linkages among biological, behavioral, social,
  physical sciences
• Collaboration between clinicians and scientists
• Partnerships with
  industry

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Research Teams of the Future 04 RFAs

• Interdisciplinary Research
• Meetings and Networks for Methodological
  Development in Interdisciplinary Research
• Training for a New Interdisciplinary Research
  Workforce
• Supplements for Methodological Innovations in the
  Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Interdisciplinary Health Research Training
  Behavior, Environment and Biology
• Short Programs for Interdisciplinary Research
  Training
• Curriculum Development Award in Interdisciplinary
  Research
• Exploratory Centers (P20) for Interdisciplinary
  Research
• High Risk Research
• NIH Director's Pioneer Award

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Training for Interdisciplinary Research Workforce

• Develop and implement novel training programs
• Build upon existing multidisciplinary and
  interdisciplinary institutional research programs
  
• Prepare individuals to lead or engage in team
  approaches to solve complex health problems

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Interdisciplinary Health Research Training
Behavior, Environment and Biology

• Formal coursework and research training in a new
  interdisciplinary field for those having advanced
  degree in a different discipline
• Required to have behavioral or social science
  discipline
• Integration of behavioral/social with more
  traditional biomedical

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Curriculum Development Award in
Interdisciplinary Research

• Support the development of innovative courses and
  curricula designed to train interdisciplinary
  scientists
• Curricula can be designed for undergraduate,
  pre-doctoral or postdoctoral students, or
  combinations
• Focus on programs that encourage the integration
  of quantitative, physical, behavioral, or social
  sciences with the traditional biomedical sciences

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Short Programs for Interdisciplinary Training

• Fusion of information, research practices and
  technologies
• Promote training in interdisciplines
• Students emerge with sufficient understanding of
  a new discipline that they can meld it with their
  previous training

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High Risk Research

• To accelerate advances...
• Encourage high risk/high impact research
• Develop and test far-ranging ideas
• Implement novel programs

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Traditional
Roadmap

• Outstanding individuals
• High risk/high impact research
• Novel programs

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NIH Directors Pioneer Award

• New program to support individuals with untested,
  potentially groundbreaking ideas!
• Encourages innovation, risk-taking
• Totally new application and peer review process
• Expected to be highly competitive
• Expanded eligibility (not only traditional
  biomedical investigators)
• Provides 500,000/year for 5 years

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Research involves taking risks