National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NIDA’s mission is to “lead the nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction through support and conduct of research across a broad range of disciplines and rapid and effective dissemination of results of that research to improve drug abuse and addiction prevention, treatment, and policy.”
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
conducting-computational biosciences research, developing computer systems, and providing computer facilities.” Center for Scientific Review (CSR) – mission is to serve as “the focal point at NIH for the conduct of initial peer review, the foundation of the NIH grant and award process. The Center carries out peer review of the majority of research and research […]
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
The clinical research facility of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. As a national resource, the CC’s mission is to “provide the patient care, services, and environment needed to initiate and support the highest quality conduct of and training in clinical research.” The CC has been named the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical […]
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
The world’s largest medical library, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NLM has as its mission to collect, organize, and make available biomedical science information to investigators, educators, and practitioners and carry out programs designed to strengthen medical library services in the United States. […]
- National Program of Cancer Registries
A program administered in the US by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 1994 that helps the states and US territories to improve their cancer registries; meet standards for data completeness; timeliness, and quality; use cancer data to support cancer prevention and control programs; train registry personnel; establish computerized reporting and data-processing […]
- National Research Council
In the United States, a part of the National Academies. There are also National Research Councils in Canada, the UK, and other countries.