Building Bridges with NIH
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS FORUM An analysis of public policy issues and how they affect MRS members and the materials community...
Building Bridges with NIH On January 27, 2004, a group of officers from the Materials Research Society met with senior leaders in the National Institutes of Health to explore ways for the Society to better support NIH’s mission. NIH, comprised of 27 separate Institutes and Centers, is the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States. Traditionally, NIH has been a relatively minor supporter of MRS membership’s research, though a recent Meeting symposium has received substantial funding from one of the divisions. Several key factors make it likely that this trend will only
increase. There is the obvious convergence between the physical and biological sciences that has attracted so much attention recently. There is the increase in emphasis on biomaterials, biomimetics, and biofunction within MRS meetings and publications. And there is the recent NIH Roadmap that has defined initiatives to allow NIH to better exploit the physical sciences. This Roadmap, which can be accessed at URL http://nihroadmap. nih.gov/, includes several topics of interest to the MRS membership, such as a strong interdisciplinary flavor, an empha-
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