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NIBIB funds research in a variety of scientific areas in bioimaging, bioengineering and informatics.

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NIH Standard Due Dates

NIH RePORTER

Entrepaneurial Finance

Grant Programs

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Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) Program

Trailblazer R21 Awards

Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (BPI)

National Centers for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG)

Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network

Small Business Programs

 

Common Grant Mechanisms Supported by NIBIB

Academic Research Enhancement Award - R15

Exploratory/Developmental Grant Program - R21

NIBIB Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings - R13, U13.

NIH Research Project Grant Program - R01.

Small Grant Program - R03

Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools (R15)

Scientific Program Areas

Bioimaging

Division of Applied Science & Technology (DAST)
Bio-electromagnetic Technologies
Shumin Wang. Ph.D., Program Director

Bioanalytical Sensors
Tatjana Atanasijevic, Ph.D., Scientific Program Manager

Image-Guided Interventions
Guoying Liu, Ph.D., Program Director

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Guoying Liu, Ph.D., Program Director
Shumin Wang, Ph.D., Program Director

Molecular Probes and Imaging Agents
Tatjana Atanasijevic, Ph.D., Scientific Program Manager

Nuclear Medicine
George Zubal, Ph.D., Program Director

Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
Afrouz Anderson,  Ph.D., Program Director
Behrouz Shabestari, Ph.D., Director - National Technology Centers Program, Acting Director - Division of Health Informatics Technologies

Ultrasound: Diagnostic & Interventional
Randy King, Ph.D., Program Director

X-ray, Electron, and Ion Beam
George Zubal, Ph.D., Program Director

Bioengineering

Division of Discovery Science & Technology (DDST)

Prototype Design 

Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
Grace Peng, Ph.D., Program Director

Prototype Demonstration

Biomaterial Interfaces
Luisa Russell, Ph.D., Program Director

Biorobotic Systems
Moria Bittmann, Ph.D., Program Director

Synthetic Biological Systems
David Rampulla, Ph.D., Director

Health Informatics Technologies

Division of Health Informatics Technologies (DHIT)
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
Behrouz Shabestari, Ph.D., Director - National Technology Centers Program, Acting Director - Division of Health Informatics Technologies
Biomedical Informatics
Qi Duan, Ph.D., Program Director

Digital Health - Mobile Health and Telehealth
Tiffani Lash, Ph.D., Program Director

Point of Care Technologies - Diagnostics
Tiffani Lash, Ph.D., Program Director

Image Processing, Visual Perception and Display
Behrouz Shabestari, Ph.D., Director - National Technology Centers Program, Acting Director - Division of Health Informatics Technologies
Qi Duan, Ph.D., Program Director

Interdisciplinary Training Programs

Division of Interdisciplinary Training (DIDT)

Career Stages

Undergraduate

Graduate/Clinical Training

Post Doctoral Training / Clinical Residency

Early Career Investigator

Established Investigator

Grant Types

Individual Fellowships

Career Development Awards

Career Transition Awards

Institutional Grants

Diversity Awards / Programs

Training-Related Programs

Academic Research Enhancement (R15)

Research Education Programs (R25)

Supplements

Loan Repayment Program

Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13)

nih-initiativesNIH Initiatives and Trans-NIH Activities

NIH Initiatives and Trans-NIH Activities

NIH Initiatives

Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)

The BRAIN Initiative

Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (B2AI)

Data and Technology Advancement (DATA) National Service Scholars

Developing Medical Devices to Treat Pain (HEAL) 

Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa)

Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative

NIBIB Response to COVID-19

NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research

The NIH Regulome Project

NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge (NTAC)

Precision Medicine Initiative

Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions

Trans-agency Activities

Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience

Cyber Physical Systems

Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG)

National Robotics Initiative

NIH-NASA Biomedical Research Activities

Smart and Connected Health

Research Resources

Informed Consent for Secondary Research with Data and Biospecimens

This document from the NIH Office of Science Policy includes points to consider and sample language for future use and/or sharing. 

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