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NIH announces strategy to accelerate medical research progress

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 2nd, 2003

In a move to transform the nation's medical-research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside, U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, has laid out a series of far-reaching initiatives known collectively as the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research.

Soon after becoming NIH director in May 2002, Dr. Zerhouni convened a series of meetings to chart a "roadmap" for medical research in the 21st century - a process that identified major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single institute at NIH could tackle alone, but that the agency still needed to address.

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