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A Framework for Communicating, Collaborating, and Coordinating Michael Huerta Co-Chair, NIH Blueprint Coordinating Committee Associate Director, NIMH. Nervous System Disorders. Account for 6 of the top 10 causes of death* Affect 1 in 3 Americans Cost over $500 billion per year**
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A Framework for Communicating, Collaborating, and Coordinating Michael HuertaCo-Chair, NIH Blueprint Coordinating CommitteeAssociate Director, NIMH
Nervous System Disorders • Account for 6 of the top 10 causes of death* • Affect 1 in 3 Americans • Cost over $500 billion per year** • Major impact on: • academic performance • workplace productivity • social functioning • quality of life Sources: *CDC; **SfN Fact Page
Urgent need to: • Accelerate progress in neuroscience • Maximize bang for the research buck
NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research • 16 Institutes, Centers, Offices (ICOs) • Focus on cross-cutting activities • Communicate and adopt best practices • Coordinate the planning & funding of: • Research and development of tools • Education, training, & career development • Research resources • $26 million from ICOs (0.6 % neuroscience) • $12 million from NIH Office of the Director
Neuroscience BlueprintParticipating ICOs NCCAM NIDCD NCRR NICHD NEI NIDCR NIA NIGMS NIAAA NIMH NIBIB NINDS NIDA NINR NIEHS OBSSR
Fiscal Year 2005 Initiatives • GENSAT (gene expression map) Expansion • Microarray Consortium Expansion • Pediatric MRI of Normal Development Expansion • Neurobiology of Disease Curriculum Development • International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility • Neuroscience Information Framework
Fiscal Year 2006 Initiatives • Neuromouse – repatriate, develop, and validate driver mouse lines for important genes • Institutional Training Initiatives • Neuroimaging – Physics to Physiology • Computational neuroscience • Neurobiology of disease • Interdisciplinary Core Facility Centers • Neuroimaging Tools and Resources • Clearinghouse for informatics (NITRC) • Imaging activation in ms & mm resolution • Neuroepidemiology Instrument
FY 2007: Neurodegeneration • Biomarkers Research • Therapeutics Delivery Strategies • Interdisciplinary Career Development • Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Human retinal degeneration
FY 2008: Neurodevelopment • Monoclonal Antibodies • Tools for Marking Neural Circuits • Gene Expression Map of the Primate Brain Normal Brain Development, Age 5- 20
FY 2009: Neuroplasticity • Probes and instrumentation for monitoring and manipulating neuroplasticity
Blueprint Grand Challenge: The Human Connectome Project • Purpose -To develop and share knowledge about the structural and functional connectivity of the healthy, adult human brain • Goals - To have delivered at the end of five years: • Optimized non-invasive imaging tools and methodsto collect human connectivity data, in vivo • High-quality, well-characterized, multi-modal, quantitative datasetsof human connectivity linked to genetic & behavioral data from hundreds of subjects • Dissemination of data, models, and tools to the research community via outreach activities and an informatics platform