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National Institutes of Health - Extramural Research Programs

This program supports research by making grants and entering into contracts and cooperative agreements. The program uses a merit-based peer review process to fund a wide array of research areas including basic research, research instruments, animal resources, specimen/tissue repositories, and early stage clinical trials.

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What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program is the only governmental or private program that has a broad mission of improving the Nation's health through funding biomedical and behavioral research.
  • The program is achieving its goals. For example, by 2009, the program intends to use chemical libraries to discover 10 new and unique structures that could lead to new drugs. Bioactive compounds have already been identified and the establishment of a Small Molecule Repository is underway.
  • The program's budget and performance integration is making progress in presenting the tie between funding requests and expected performance results.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Starting at least one pilot clinical trial on promising interventions based on results of previous trials and new leads for drug discovery.
  • Completing treatment and follow-up of participants in the ACCORD trial to determine effects of glycemia, blood pressure, and blood lipid treatment approaches to prevent CVD in diabetes.
  • Completing goal of expanding the range of available methods used to create, analyze, and utilize chemical libraries, which can be used to discover new medicines.

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