NIH expects to fund five or six extramural centers at $145 million over 7 years.
Another type of "big science" is the extramural research center structure, first funded in the 1960s.
This week's Newsmaker is Sonny Ramaswamy, the new director of the $1.2 billion National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's center for extramural research funding.
These treatment centers offer specialized residential and extramural care for adolescents with mild to borderline ID and severe behavioral problems.
The U.S. EPA currently supports intramural and extramural PM research, including five academically based PM centers.
Highlights from past columns include: Research programs Programs featured in the Extramural Update have included Superfund, Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers, Children's Centers, Parkinson's Disease Collaborative Centers, and the Worker Education and Training Program.
This work was supported by National Cancer Institute intramural and extramural funds and by individual contracts from the National Cancer Institute to each of the 10 screening centers and to the coordinating center.
The NIEHS created the NCNHIR consortium to guide and enhance the work of the NCNHIR centers, as well as to facilitate collaboration among researchers across the ENM extramural research program.
To accomplish this, we are in the process of developing a number of extramural and intramural programs that focus on training, career development, independent research support, and specialized centers in integrative (translational) research.
The Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome DAIDSS) is one of three extramural scientific divisions of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the second largest of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Among his extramural interests were ornithology and, following his father's example, the practice of calligraphy.
