Established in 1997, the Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) is one of the Foundation for NIH’s premier public-private partnerships. With long-term support from Pfizer Inc, the program has enabled 280 of the country’s most promising medical and dental students to experience clinical research firsthand in an intensive, year-long, residential training program at the National Institutes of Health.

In 2009, the many friends and family members of Dr. Stephen E. Straus contributed over $15,000 to the Foundation for NIH to commission a portrait of Dr. Straus, the founding director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).  

The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act of 2002 provided for the testing of drugs that had been approved for adult use and that are used to treat children, but had not been tested for children.

The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is NIH’s largest public-private partnership on brain research.

In 2007, the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) completed an ambitious program to genotype existing research studies in six major common diseases, and combine the results with clinical data to create a significant new resource for genetic researchers.

To best benefit the hundreds of thousands of patients who rely upon life-sustaining kidney dialysis, this program supports the implementation of randomized clinical trials of daily in-center and home hemodialysis.

Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. In 2009, there were nearly 69,000 estimated new cases of melanoma in the United States.