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RESEARCH TEAMS OF THE FUTURE
Working Groups and Co-Chairs
 Interdisciplinary Research
Patricia Grady, NINR
Ken Olden, NIEHS
Larry Tabak, NIDCR
 High-risk Research
Ellie Ehrenfeld, NIAID
Stephen Straus, NCCAM
 Public-Private Partnerships
Andy von Eschenbach, NCI
Richard Hodes, NIA
Research Teams of the Future:
Interdisciplinary Research
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research
“Just definitions either
prevent or put an end to a
dispute”
Nathaniel Emm
Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research
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Work on
Multidisciplinary
common problem
Interaction
forges new discipline
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Interdisciplinary
More is different
P.W. Anderson, Science 177, 393-396, 1972
Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research
will be Required to Solve the “Puzzle”
of Complex Diseases and Conditions
Genes
Behavior
Diet/Nutrition
Infectious agents
Environment
Society
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Mathematicians
Physicians
Sociologists
Psychologists
Physicists
Interdisciplinary
Research
Nurses
Dentists
Engineers
Economists
Challenges to Interdisciplinary Research
 The current system of
academic advancement
favors the independent
investigator
 Most institutions house
scientists in discrete
departments
 Interdisciplinary science
requires interdisciplinary
peer-review
 Project management and
oversight is currently
performed by discrete ICs
 Interdisciplinary research
teams take time to assemble
and require unique
resources
Research Teams of the Future:
Current Roadmap RFAs
 Interdisciplinary Research
 Meetings and Networks for Methodological Development in
Interdisciplinary Research
 Training for a New Interdisciplinary Research Workforce
 Supplements for Methodological Innovations in the Behavioral
and Social Sciences
 Interdisciplinary Health Research Training: Behavior, Environment
and Biology
 Short Programs for Interdisciplinary Research Training
 Curriculum Development Award in Interdisciplinary Research
 Exploratory Centers (P20) for Interdisciplinary Research
 Public/Private Partnerships
 High Risk Research
 NIH Director's Pioneer Award
Exploratory Centers (P20) for
Interdisciplinary Research
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Purpose: to plan exploratory centers that overcome barriers
to conducting interdisciplinary research
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How? Applicant organizations must describe their plans to
facilitate interdisciplinary research
1.
How the institution will distribute credit for direct (and
indirect) costs to reflect the contributions of different
components
2.
How the institution will recognize the contributions of the
research team beyond the Principal Investigator
3.
How the institution attends to the careers of "interstitial" team
members who play important roles in interdisciplinary
research, but who are not tenure track or eligible/appropriate
to be principal investigators on research grants.
Supplements for Methodological
Innovations in the Behavioral and
Social Sciences
 Purpose: to develop innovative methodology
(research design, data collection techniques,
measurement, and data analysis techniques) in
social and behavioral sciences research.
 What?
 New technologies and the analytical complexities associated
with the integration of behavioral, social, genetic, and
biomedical data
 Improved methods for performing research on diverse
populations or on potentially sensitive or covert behaviors
such as drug use, abuse, and violence
 Innovative experimental designs to study how changes in
economic, social, environmental, physical, or political context
affect all aspects of ongoing research
 Development and integration of behavioral and social sciences
measures with those of the biomedical disciplines
Research Teams of the Future:
Training, Career Development and
High Risk Research
Patricia A. Grady, Ph.D., R.N.
Transforming Research Training
Interdisciplinary research training
is a prerequisite to
interdisciplinary research.
Transforming Research Training
means:
 Linkages among biological, behavioral,
social, physical sciences
 Collaboration between clinicians and
scientists
 Partnerships with
industry
Research Teams of the Future: ’04 RFAs
Interdisciplinary Research
 Meetings and Networks for Methodological Development in
Interdisciplinary Research
 Training for a New Interdisciplinary Research Workforce
 Supplements for Methodological Innovations in the Behavioral and
Social Sciences
 Interdisciplinary Health Research Training: Behavior,
Environment and Biology
 Short Programs for Interdisciplinary Research Training
 Curriculum Development Award in Interdisciplinary Research
 Exploratory Centers (P20) for Interdisciplinary Research
High Risk Research
 NIH Director's Pioneer Award
Training for Interdisciplinary
Research Workforce
 Develop and implement novel
training programs
 Build upon existing multidisciplinary
and interdisciplinary institutional
research programs
 Prepare individuals to lead or
engage in team approaches to
solve complex health problems
Interdisciplinary Health Research Training:
Behavior, Environment and Biology
 Formal coursework and research
training in a new interdisciplinary field
for those having advanced degree in a
different discipline
 Required to have behavioral or social
science discipline
 Integration of behavioral/social with
more traditional biomedical
Curriculum Development
Award in Interdisciplinary
Research
 Support the development of innovative courses and
curricula designed to train interdisciplinary
scientists
 Curricula can be designed for undergraduate, predoctoral or postdoctoral students, or combinations
 Focus on programs that encourage the integration
of quantitative, physical, behavioral, or social
sciences with the traditional biomedical sciences
Short Programs for
Interdisciplinary Training
 Fusion of information, research practices
and technologies
 Promote training in “interdisciplines”
 Students emerge with sufficient
understanding of a new discipline that they
can meld it with their
previous training
Traditional
Roadmap
 Outstanding individuals
 High risk/high impact research
 Novel programs
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
 New program to support individuals with
untested, potentially groundbreaking ideas!
 Encourages innovation, risk-taking
 Totally new application and peer review process
 Expected to be highly competitive
 Expanded eligibility – (not only traditional
biomedical investigators)
 Provides $500,000/year for 5 years
Research involves taking
risks