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Each year, NCATS and the NIH Clinical Center sponsor Rare Disease Day to raise awareness about rare diseases and the NIH collaborations that address scientific challenges and advance research for new treatments. This year’s virtual event will feature panel discussions, rare disease stories, exhibitors and scientific posters. A new event app will be available with enhanced engagement features and easier ways to connect with others.

On December 17, 2021 at 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (ET), NINR will host “Notes from the Field: Pivoting a Research Program to Climate Change,” part of the NIH Climate Change and Health Webinar Series. Welcome remarks - Shannon Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, NINR Speaker - Director Linda A. McCauley, PhD, RN, Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Climate Change and Nursing Research Nurse

Join the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) virtually on Thursday, November 18 and Friday, November 19, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST each day, for the annual NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (BSSR) Festival. Register to attend and view the festival agenda and speaker biographies: https://www.scgcorp.com/obssrfest2021/Registration The festival, hosted by

Background About one-fifth of all people in the United States live in rural areas. Health disparities continue to be a pressing issue for rural communities, where there are increased mortality rates, a higher prevalence of diseases, and lower life expectancy than in urban areas. While the underlying causes of such disparities are complex, social determinants of health (e.g., access to care

Background Nutrition plays an important role throughout our lives in promoting health and preventing disease. But where we live or how much money we earn can affect our ability to access or afford healthy food choices. Ensuring food security and access to healthy food are key to preventing disparities in a variety of diet-related diseases and conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, obesity

The National Institutes of Health and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy are organizing a series of listening sessions to get feedback from patient advocacy groups, industry, scientific professional organizations, and other stakeholders. These listening sessions will vary in format from broad, public discussions to smaller, invitation-only meetings to discuss more sensitive

Free registration now open! HHS Small Business Program Conference April 26-30 Calling all small business developers of products or services with the potential to improve human health! Free registration is now open for the 2021 HHS Small Business Program Conference, which is being held virtually from April 26-30. This year’s conference will explore the theme Diverse Perspectives SEEDing Impactful

This RCCN Virtual Workshop will include sessions on aspects of including older adults in clinical research including the Current Situation, Barriers - Real and Perceived, Making the Case, and Best Practices Reaching for Out to Colleagues. View the draft agenda for the workshop here. This workshop will be held as a webinar, and registration is free and open to the public. Please register using this

NIMHD will host Dr. L. Ebony Boulware as the next NIMHD Director’s Seminar Series titled “Where Clouds Meet the Ground: Democratizing Health Data to Address Community Health Equity.” Dr. Boulware is the Eleanor Easley Chair at the School of Medicine and the chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Department of Medicine at Duke University. As a general internist and clinical

Registration for Rare Disease Day at NIH (RDD at NIH) 2021 is now open! RDD at NIH, sponsored by NCATS and the NIH Clinical Center, will take place virtually on March 1, 2021, from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST. Each year, NIH hosts this event to raise awareness about rare diseases, the people they affect and research collaborations underway to address scientific challenges and to advance new

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are co-hosting a virtual Workshop on Systemic Immunogenicity Considerations for Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV)-Mediated Gene Therapy. This meeting will bring together scientists

Join NCATS and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for the 2020 NIH Rural Health Seminar: Challenges in the Era of COVID-19. The seminar will bring together researchers, medical practitioners and others to explore topics in rural health. Learn about the impact of COVID-19 on rural populations, on systems and workforce issues, and on community engagement in response to

Nov. 18-19, 2020 Day 1: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST Day 2: 8:50 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST NCATS is hosting a two-day workshop that will cover a broad range of critical concepts underlying assay development and implementation for high-throughput screening and lead discovery projects. This workshop is designed to disseminate critical information about the implementation of robust assay methods and is

NCATS and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are sponsoring this scientific summit to discuss progress and remaining challenges in developing antiviral treatments for COVID-19. Scientific experts from public and private sectors will examine such topics as SARS-CoV-2 targets for drug development and tools to test promising antiviral drug candidates. They also will

Date and Time: Thursday, November 19, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET Location: NIH Videocast The virtual event is FREE and open to the public. Registration is required. Agenda: View, print, or download a detailed agenda (PDF, 207 KB) Speaker Biographies: View, print, or download speaker biographies (PDF, 507 KB) About the Seminar: Today, approximately 20% of the U.S. population—about 60

The Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine are hosting a virtual workshop on Jumpstarting Clinical Data Access to COVID-19 Research on July 29, 2020. NIH is committed to advancing research and its data science efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the larger NIH COVID-19 response, leadership is designing a COVID-19

In this webinar, Dr. Alexey Nesvizhskii, will demonstrate his ultrafast MSFragger software. Dr. Nesvizhskii created the MSFragger database search tool in 2017 to comprehensively identify peptides and their modified forms in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Due to its ultrafast processing speed, MSFragger can quickly perform open searches for data sets containing millions of mass spectrometry

Join the Ground Rounds Rethinking Clinical Trial Series with guest speakers: Ken Gersing, MD Director of Informatics, NCATS National Institutes of Health Robert A. Star, MD Director, Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Disorders, NIDDK Chief, Renal Diagnostics and Therapeutics Unit, NIDDK National Institutes of Health

Join the NIH OITE for a bystander training program to empower trainees and other members of the NIH community to speak up and intervene when we witness bullying, incivility, microaggressions, and hate speech. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, May 26 from 2:00pm-4:00pm. Details about accessing the webinar will be distributed early Tuesday morning.