Announcements

VISITNIH: A SAFER, SPEEDIER WAY TO ON-CAMPUS COLLABORATION, COMING JANUARY 2025

Collaboration is core to our mission of transformational research here at NIH. Each year, NIH welcomes thousands of visitors to campus from across the globe to connect on the latest research, share best practices, and partner on groundbreaking work. To enhance security and streamline the process of welcoming researchers, patients, and other professionals to our campuses, VisitNIH has launched.

VisitNIH, part of the Visitor Access Management Initiative (VAMI), is an online pre-registration process that allows visitors to bypass long security lines at our campus gates. Pre-registration will be required for non-U.S. person visitors and will be available for U.S. person visitors who wish to have a speedier entry. The VisitNIH interface is intuitive and highly adapted to meet the nuanced demands of the NIH.

January 2025 marks the start of the phased implementation of VisitNIH, which will include the launch of VisitNIH’s pre-registration process for visitors coming to the Bethesda main campus. More details to come, but in the meantime, information about VisitNIH and details on the implementation plan can be found on the VAMI intranet page.

DISCOVER WOMEN’S HEALTH RESEARCH PORTAL ROLLS OUT

Discover Women’s Health Research is a collaboration between the NIH, NLM, and the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) to promote the discovery of NIH investments in women's health research.

This novel discovery portal enables researchers, health care professionals, patients, caregivers, and the public to easily find the latest discoveries and current research funded by NIH for women’s health. The initial phase of this resource will provide information on the research areas of menopause, polycystic ovary syndrome, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and scleroderma, with more to come.

The centralized resources is one big step towards NIH fulfilling the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.

2024-2025 CLINICAL RESEARCH EDUCATION AT THE NIH

Registration for the 2024–2025 online clinical research education programs is now open to interested individuals, free of charge.

INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF CLINICAL RESEARCH COURSE

• Online (approximately 40 recorded lectures; do at your own pace)
• Click here for more information and to register by June 27, 2025

This free online course teaches registrants on how to conduct clinical research effectively and safely. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, medical, dental, pharmacy, and nursing students and other health professionals are encouraged to enroll. The course textbook, Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, Fourth Edition (2018) is available for purchase from several online book retailers and at the NIH Building 10 FAES bookstore. For questions, contact the course coordinator at ocreco-education@mail.nih.gov.

PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY COURSE

• Online (approximately 50 recorded lectures; do at your own pace)
• Click here for more information and to register by June 27, 2025 

This free online lecture series covers the fundamentals of clinical pharmacology as a translational scientific discipline. Topics include pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism and transport, drug therapy in special populations, drug discovery and development, and pharmacogenomics. This course will be of interest to graduate students, postdocs, medical and pharmacy students, scientists, and health professionals interested in expanding their pharmacology knowledge base. No textbook is required. For questions, contact the course coordinator at ocreco-education@mail.nih.gov.

NIH CLINICAL RESEARCH CURRICULUM CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

• Open only to those employed at NIH as staff, trainee, or contractor
• Click here for more information and to apply

Earn a formal certificate from the NIH Office of Clinical Research Education and Collaboration Outreach, Office of Intramural Research, Office of the Director, by completing a clinical research curriculum. The Clinical Research Curriculum Certificate (CRCC) program was developed for individuals engaged or interested in clinical or translational research. For questions, email crcc@mail.nih.gov.

DISASER RESEARCH RESPONSE (DR2) PROGRAM OFFERS HURRICANE RESOURCES AND TOOLS

The Disaster Research Response (DR2) Program empowers human health research in response to disasters and public health emergencies. Hosted by NIEHS, DR2 provides a repository of data collection tools and other related resources on the Resources Portal to support researchers of environmental disasters.

NCATS LAUNCHES NEW TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

New educational resources from NCATS provide infographics to knowledge guides to drug deployment maps. Click here to learn more about translational science.

DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS PROGRAM KICKOFF MEETING

The Distinguished Scholars Program (DSP) held their annual kickoff meeting with the NIH Director October 24 on the Bethesda campus. The 2024 scholars were greeted by NIH senior leadership and senior investigators who serve as dedicated mentors, advocates, and sponsors for each DSP cohort. 

Now in its 7th year, the DSP aims to build a more inclusive community within the NIH Intramural Research Program by facilitating the recruitment and career development of principal investigators who have a commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in the biomedical research workforce.