Featured Announcements & Media

Featured Announcements & Media

Watch Dr. Mike Weiner as He Enrolls as a Subject in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Clinical Study

June 17, 2011

This nine minute video follows Dr. Michael Weiner, M.D., ADNI Principal Investigator and Professor of Medicine, Radiology, Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco as he enrolls as a subject in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)  clinical study.

Biomarkers Consortium Project Aims To Develop Well-Defined Endpoints in Antibacterial Clinical Trials for Bacterial Pneumonia and Skin Infections

June 2, 2011

Developing Endpoints for Clinical Trials of Drugs for Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections and Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia

2011 mHealth Summit - Call for Abstracts and Presentations Now Open!

May 31, 2011

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in partnership with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the mHealth Alliance, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seek abstracts, presentations and speakers in the areas of research, technology, business and policy for the 2011 mHealth Summit.

FNIH and NIH Present Annual Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Lecture

May 22, 2011

Supported by the Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Fund, this annual lecture is led by a recognized expert in neuroscience, who is selected and awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke as part of the NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series.

Atherosclerosis Modeling Request for Proposals (RFP)

May 22, 2011

Cardiovascular (CV) disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States and is still a major cause of disability in 2011 according to the CDC.

FNIH Meets with Bill Rancic and the O’Neill Family to Kick-Off the Rancic-O’Neill Renal Cell Cancer Research Fellowship

May 22, 2011

Kidney cancer affects more than 50,000 Americans a year – and the incidence is steadily increasing. The FNIH is pleased to announce Quinn Weisman as the first Rancic-O’Neill Fellow, made possible by a partnership between the Dr. Edward T. Rancic Memorial Fund and the Dean R.

Women’s Heart Truth® a Key Public Outreach Campaign for FNIH

May 22, 2011

Every year a growing number of women discover that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

FNIH Announces Proposal Submission for November 2011 U.S.-Russia Scientific Forum

May 22, 2011

On April 25-26, 2011, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH), the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development, with the participation and support from a number of private sector companies, held a U.S.-Russia Scientific Forum planning meeting in preparation for the annual Forum meet

2012 mHealth Summit

The 2012 mHealth Summit will build on last year’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.

FNIH Awarded Lurie Prize to Ruslan M. Medzhitov for Groundbreaking Discoveries in the Immune System

Ruslan M. Medzhitov, PhD Received Inaugural Prize for Ground-Breaking Work Exploring the Immune System