Centers of The NIH
In addition to being divided by research area, NIH has many operating groups called centers operating across all of the Institutes.
| Name | Acronym | Description | Est. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Scientific Review | CSR | The CSR is the focal point at NIH for the conduct of initial peer review of grant and fellowship applications, implements ways to conduct referral and review. | 1946 | |
| Clinical Center | CC | The clinical research facility of the National Institutes of Health; provides patient care, services, and environment needed to initiate and support conduct of and training in clinical research. | 1953 | |
| National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | NCATS | The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences works with the public and private sectors to develop innovative methods and technologies to speed the development and delivery of a wide range of new drugs, diagnostics and devices to the public. | 2012 | |
| Center for Information Technology | CIT; formerly DCRT, OIRM, TCB | The CIT incorporates computers into the biomedical programs and administrative procedures of the NIH by conducting computational biosciences research, developing computer systems, and providing computer facilities. | 1964 | |
| John E. Fogarty International Center | FIC | Promotes and supports scientific research and training internationally to reduce disparities in global health. | 1968 | |
| Radiological Physics Center | RPC | Offers quality assurance to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that all participating institutions in NCI sponsored cooperative groups are following the guidelines for the physics-related aspects of their protocols. | 1968 | |
| Quality Assurance Review Center | QARC | Provides radiotherapy quality assurance and diagnostic imaging data management for all of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored cooperative groups. It also contracts privately with the pharmaceutical industry for its services in clinical trials involving anti-cancer drugs. | 1977 | |
| National Center for Biotechnology Information | NCBI | Established as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information – all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease. | 1988 | |
| National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine | NCCAM | Exploring complementary and alternative medical practices in the context of rigorous science, training researchers, disseminating authoritative information. | 1992 | |
| Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center | VRC | The mission of the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) is to conduct research that facilitates the development of effective vaccines for human disease. The primary focus of research is the development of vaccines for AIDS. | 1999 | |
| Bioinformatics Resource Centers | BRC | Provides genomic, proteomic, biochemical, and microbiological data from a wide range of emerging/re-emerging pathogens (NIAID Category A, B, and C). Contains eight sub-centers (the BRCs) each dedicated to a different group of pathogens. Data are presented in a database format accessible by Web interfaces, together with tools for analysis. | 2004 | |
| National Centers for Biomedical Computing | NCBC | Be the core of the networked national effort to build the computational infrastructure for biomedical computing in the nation. | 2004 | |
| Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engineering at Dayton | TREND | Focused on human tissue regeneration and nanotechnology. | 2006 |
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