The National Institutes of Health has appointed Eric Dishman as the new director for a national research program that seeks to build up precision medicine efforts. Dishman, formerly a vice president at Intel and a
MoreThe National Institutes of Health and London-based Wellcome Trust have jointly kicked off a science competition to solicit ideas on ways to help the public access scientific research data. NIH will select six teams
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The Accelerating Medicines Partnership between the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and private-sector partners has launched a big data portal for the sharing and analysis of research on Alzheimer’s
MoreThe National Institutes of Health will invest about $656 million in a biomedical big data research initiative through 2020 to develop software and support a training program for data discovery. Program grantees will work to identify novel analytics to
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The National Institutes of Health has doled out $46 million in total grants to support 58 research projects that aim to create new brain mapping systems and methods. NIH said Tuesday more
MoreThe National Institutes of Health has unveiled a new public website designed to help scientists and students create three-dimensional anatomical or bacterial models. NIH said Wednesday the 3D Print Exchange portal features
MoreThe National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $2.4 million in funding for three robotics projects in an effort to help patients with disabilities and aid in medical procedures. NIH is participating
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The National Institutes of Health would have to cut $1.6 billion from its budget for fiscal year 2013 under the automatic sequestration cuts scheduled to take effect Friday, USA Today reports. Dan
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The National Institutes of Health would have to cut 6.4 percent from its budget if the sequestration mechanism triggers March 1, the agency’s director told Politico. Francis Collins, head of NIH since
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The National Institutes of Health is searching for a new associate director to lead the agency’s biomedical research data initiatives such as genomics, imaging, and electronic health records. NIH said Eric Green,
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