What: | Funding Opportunity:NIH Roadmap Administrative Supplements to Support Interdisciplinary Research in the Behavioral/Social and Biological Sciences |
| Who: | National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine on behalf of the NIH |
Information: | http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-05-007.html |
Notice Number: NOT-RM-05-007
Key Dates
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Application Receipt Date: June 15, 2005
Earliest Anticipated Start Date: September 30, 2005
The National Institutes of Health announces the availability of one-year administrative supplements aimed at stimulating interdisciplinary research, in humans, that integrates the behavioral or social sciences with the biological sciences. The short-term supplemental funds provided under this NIH Roadmap initiative are intended to support partnerships between behavioral or social scientists and biological scientists to foster the melding of these disciplines' typically disparate perspectives, approaches and methodologies into interdisciplinary research efforts that will improve our ability to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat disease and disability and to improve symptom management and health. An interdisciplinary approach is distinguished from a multidisciplinary approach in that a multidisciplinary approach brings experts from diverse disciplines to address collectively a common complex problem, each from his or her unique perspective. By contrast, an interdisciplinary approach results from the melding of two or more disciplines to create a new (interdisciplinary) science. This program is developed as a NIH Roadmap initiative. The Roadmap's goal, in keeping with the NIH mission of uncovering new knowledge about the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disability, is to accelerate both the pace of discovery in these key areas and the translation of therapies from bench to bedside. In the course of developing the NIH Roadmap, it has become clear that scientific advances are increasingly being made at the interfaces of traditional disciplines, and that approaches to science are becoming more integrative. These advances require cooperative efforts, typically in the form of investigators from diverse research backgrounds working collectively across traditional disciplinary boundaries to answer scientific questions and achieve specific endpoints.
