What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, launched in September 2003, is a series of far-reaching initiatives that are intended to accelerate the pace of life science discovery from bench into practice for the benefit of the public. The NIH Roadmap is focused on efforts that no single NIH Institute could tackle alone but that the agency as a whole must address. Spearhead by Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with input from over 300 nationally recognized leaders in academia, industry, government and the public, the NIH Roadmap addresses major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research. The three areas of focus include: New Pathways to Discovery, which will deepen our understanding of biology; Research Teams of the Future, focused on stimulating the creation of interdisciplinary research teams; and Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise, a challenge to rethink how we approach health care.
