The course on “Principles of Clinical Pharmacology” consisted of a weekly lecture series covering the fundamentals of clinical pharmacology as a translational scientific discipline focused on rational drug development and utilization in therapeutics. The recommended textbook is Principles of Clinical Pharmacology, Third Edition (2012) edited by Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr., et al.

The 2012 mHealth Summit was build on 2011’s success by highlighting emerging best practices from mHealth implementations as well as the latest business, finance, policy and technical perspectives, fostering in-depth dialogue to identify and accelerate cross-cutting value chains and sustainable mHealth business model adoption around the globe.

The focus of the 2012 AD-MI Conference was the work of its three primary, active working groups.

This is an event held at the NIH Clinical Center to formally recognize family and friends who are serving as informal caregivers to research participants at the Clinical Center.

The Collaborative Summit on Breast Cancer Research defined new research-funding paradigms in the fight against breast cancer.

The 7th annual Boo! Run for Life 10K run and Tidal Basin walk took place on Sunday, October 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. The event was organized by friends and family of Dean R.

OMOP was designed to develop, implement, and empirically test the performance of a number of methods in identifying drug outcomes across multiple observational data sources. Results will provide empiric evidence to inform the implementation of any systematic surveillance system necessary to identify and track emerging safety issues.

Sarcopenia Consensus Summit was a four-day consensus definition conference co-organized by the FNIH, NIA and FDA, and sponsored by 5 pharmaceutical companies (Abbott, Amgen, Eli Lilly, Merck, and Novartis). This conference was held on May 8-11, 2012 at the InterContinental Hotel - Harbor Court, Baltimore, MD. The resulting consensus definition of sarcopenia, enabled through the Biomarkers Consortium acting as a neutral convener for academia, industry, FDA, NIH, and professional societies, with useful recommendations for researchers, clinicians, and regulators.

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the National Eye Institute (NEI) were pleased to announce the 6th Sayer Vision Research Lecture, which was held on Monday, April 16, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in the Natcher Conference Center (NIH/Building 45) on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.  This year’s lecture was given by Yoshiki Sasai, M.D., Ph.D., RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, speaking on the topic, “Self-Organization of Neural Structures in Three-Dimensional Stem Cell Cultures.”

In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), the Foundation for NIH sponsored two events – a celebration dinner on the evening of December 12th, in honor of key individuals who played a significant role in the creation of the Center and a symposium on December 13th, that presented cutting edge rehabilitation research funded by the Center.

HIMSS Life Sciences Roundtable met on Wednesday, November 16, 11:00 am-12:00 pm EST for a discussion with Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, CMIO of Siemens Healthcare and a Principle Research Investigator at the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) on OMOPs efforts to help improve the monitoring of drugs for safety -- “Advancing the Science of Observational Data Analysis in Life Sciences.”  Please see the attached flier for additional information about this month’s Roundtable meeting and presentation and WebEx information. For Details >>

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the NIH Virology Interest Group announce the Thirteenth Annual Norman P. Salzman Memorial Award in Virology. This award has been established to recognize outstanding research accomplishments by a post-doctoral fellow or research trainee working in the field of virology at the NIH.

As part of the year long celebration marking its 25th anniversary, NINR announced a Call for Poster Abstracts for a poster session held October 13, 2011 in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

This meeting focussed on the translational advances that have arisen with the basic discoveries of this important Jak/STAT pathway.

Over sixty laboratories at the NIH and FDA were involved in glycosciences research. The goal of this annual meeting was to highlight and disseminate information on the extensive amount of cutting edge research in the glycosciences so that collaborations can be built between laboratories.

Changing Practice, Changing Lives: NINR’s 25th Anniversary series of events was hosted by the National Institute on Nursing Research (NINR) and included a series of components with scientific symposia, conferences and regional key constituency group meetings.

On April 25-26, 2011, an organizational meeting took place in Moscow to prepare for The Forum planned for the fall of 2011.  This working meeting brought together U.S. and Russian government officials and researchers who discussed the development of the Forum Scientific Committee, determined working groups and assigned U.S. and Russian leads, determined and assigned tasks for Forum partners, and coordinated activities, budgets, and capabilities.

The Heart Truth's® Red Dress Collection 2011 was presented by Diet Coke with national sponsors Swarovski and partners Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and AOL.  The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute was joined by The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health to spread The Heart Truth message through its support of the Red Dress Collection 2011 Fashion Show.

This conference was a three-day event that provided a broad overview of genomics in public health research, practice and policy to highlight how the science might be used to prevent disease and promote health across the life span. The event also engaged participants in considering how forecasted advances in genomic discovery may influence the future of public health.

mHealth holds the promise to deliver healthcare to underserved communities in the U.S. and the Developing World, and it offers the potential of squeezing greater efficiencies from strained or underfunded healthcare systems – or serving aging populations that want to maintain a quality of life.

The Cognitive Aging Summit brought together a range of experts in a variety of research fields to discuss the most cutting edge advances in our understanding of age-related brain and behavioral changes.

The NIH celebrated the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Office of Research on Women’s Health on September 27, 2010. This marked the historic founding of the very first office in the federal government to focus on the health of girls and women and to address issues of importance for women in biomedical careers.

The human microbiome may be key to health and disease, yet the exact relationship between the microbiome and the human is not clearly understood. Attend the Human Microbiome Research Conference to share insights and learn more about research this area. This conference was open to the entire scientific community interested in human microbiome and metagenomic research.

This day-long workshop, “Proteomics in Neuroscience”, sponsored by the Biomarkers Consortium Neuroscience Steering Committee, provided a forum for industry, government, and academia to examine the biomarker development pathway, from discovery to validated assays, using mass spectrometry-based proteomic approaches.

Roger Y. Tsien, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008, delivered the fourth annual Sayer Vision Research Lecture, hosted by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health. His talk was titled: “Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors.”

The Stephen E. Straus, M.D. Portrait Unveiling and Reception was hosted by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to honor their Founding Director, Dr. Straus, and to unveil a portrait of him, which will now hang in the lobby of NCCAM as a tribute to his work. The reception took place on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 from 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Training the next generation of clinical and translational researchers is part of the NIH Clinical Center mission, and the CC and its Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education (OCRTME) did as much when they welcomed more than 260 fellows to the seventh annual Clinical Investigator Student Trainee (CIST) Forum, which took place on November 4-6, 2009 at the Clinical Center – National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Organized by the O’Neill family, Boo!Run for Life is an annual 10K race and 2 mile walk designed to raise awareness and funding for renal cell cancer research.  Funds raised through the event support the O’Neill Fund at the Foundation for NIH.

On August 4, 2009, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, the Lasker Foundation and Research!America recognized Senators Tom Harkin, Edward Kennedy and Arlen Specter for their leadership for research and for highlighting the importance of a shared commitment to making research for health a high national priority.

The Fogarty International Center's 40th anniversary gala brought together leaders from Congress, federal agencies, science, advocacy groups, the diplomatic corps and businesses with interest in global health issues. The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health hosted the Oct. 15 dinner at the Italian embassy in Washington, DC and honored Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., and Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., for their global health leadership in Congress.