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WE‐A‐T‐6B‐01: NCI Talk On Funding
Author(s) -
Deye J
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.1998483
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , translational research , terrorism , political science , medical physicist , grant funding , engineering ethics , public relations , public administration , medicine , medical education , medical physics , engineering , law , pathology , radiology
The National Institutes of Health is composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) being the oldest and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) the youngest. Medical physicists have a major stake in the pursuits of these institutes since they have a large influence on everything from the research that is funded to the clinical protocols and methods that are employed in both therapy and diagnosis. Yet these institutes are themselves experiencing very significant extrinsic and intrinsic factors that affect the ways that they interact with the medical community. A partial list would include: the NIH budget in the post‐doubling period; the creation of NIH‐wide Roadmap Initiatives and NCI‐wide Enterprise Initiatives; the adaptation of the NIBIB to the other Institutes; budget set‐asides for the war on terrorism; the dawning of translational research methods; the blurring of boundaries between disciplines; and an increasing role for industry, to name a few. The ramifications of these changes will be explored with regard to the institute budgets, priorities and relationships; and the presentation will outline some of the current research agendas and the mechanisms which are used to implement them.