Press Releases

16 June 2008

SAN DIEGO, June 16, 2008 —The Biomarkers Consortium, a collaborative public-private partnership managed by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, today announced its strategic focus on addressing High-Impact Biomarker Opportunities. These High-Impact Biomarker Opportunities represent pragmatic, high-priority areas of opportunity for biomarker identification, development, and qualification that promise to expedite therapeutic development and improve patient diagnosis, care, and treatment.

25 April 2008
BETHESDA, Md., April 25—The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health today announced that it has received a $250,000 grant from the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, the private foundation created by CVS Caremark Corporation. The three-year grant launches a Foundation for NIH effort to combat childhood obesity and improve physical fitness in children and youth with disabilities and funds implementation of the I Can Do It program at three participating sites—the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami, Fla.; Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pa.; and the Hudson Valley Cerebral Palsy Center, Patterson, N.Y.

24 Aril 2008

BETHESDA, Md., April 24--The Biomarkers Consortium today announced it will sponsor a two-part supersession at the 2008 BIO International Convention in San Diego on June 19, 2008. A 2:00-3:30 p.m. panel will address “Accelerating the Identification and Development of Biomarkers for Human Health Through Public-Private Partnerships.” The 4:00-5:30 panel will assess “The Promise and Progress of The Biomarkers Consortium.”

17 January 2008
ATLANTA, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermodel Heidi Klum is joining Diet Coke to help raise awareness of women and heart disease through the Diet Coke Red Dress Program. The program is part of Diet Coke's new partnership with The Heart Truth, a national awareness campaign about women and heart disease, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

13 November 2007

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Leadership and senior staff of twenty- seven breast cancer funding organizations and advocacy groups met on November 1-2 along with experts from government agencies, scientists from academic institutions and researchers from the pharmaceutical industry at the unprecedented Collaborative Summit on Breast Cancer Research. This first meeting of its kind in the US took place in Leesburg, VA, outside Washington, DC, and included some 100 invited participants. Special host for the event was Paula Zahn.

17 August 2007

BETHESDA, Md. Aug. 17--The Foundation for National Institutes of Health is the top-rated charity among the 593 health category charities rated by Charity Navigator and, with an overall 69.72 score (out of a possible 70.00), the third highest rated among all 5,327 charities it evaluates, according to the organization’s Web-posted August 2007 evaluations.  Charity Navigator rates charities by evaluating the charity's organizational efficiency, organizational capacity, and overall financial health. 

22 July 2007

BETHESDA, Md., July 22—Contributing membership in The Biomarkers Consortium now totals 30 companies and non-profit trade associations and advocacy groups, it was announced today. To date, these organizations have committed an aggregate of nearly $2 million to fund the first year of the central activities of the consortium which is managed be the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

27 June 2007 (2)

BETHESDA, Md., June 27--The Biomarkers Consortium has launched a Web site to encourage researchers to submit biomarker project concepts. Financial support for concepts approved for development will be procured through fund-raising efforts by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

27 June 2997 (1) BETHESDA, Md., June 27-- With funding and support from the GAIN initiative, a 600,000 tag SNP genome-wide association scan of 958 parent-child trios will be completed from Dr. Stephen Faraone's International Multisite ADHD Genetics (IMAGE) project, in order to assess the association of SNP markers with ADHD, impute genotypes for siblings in the GAIN trio families, analyze quantitative ADHD phenotypes, complete copy number analyses, assess parent of origin effects and season of birth effects, and to test for epistasis among apparently uncorrelated genes.

12 June 2007

BETHESDA, Md., June 12--The Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) is now accepting applications from researchers who want access to the rich trove of data that its genome-wide association studies of common diseases will begin generating within the next few months.

11 June 2007
BETHESDA, Md. , June 11--Alzheimer’s disease researchers may be able to reduce the time and expense associated with clinical trials, according to early results from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a public-private research partnership organized by the National Institutes of Health. Preliminary results from ADNI show how it might yield improved methods and uniform standards for imaging and biomarker analysis, so these techniques can be employed in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease.

06 June 2007

BETHESDA, Md., June 6--The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected the 30 participants for its 2007-2008 Clinical Research Training Program for Medical and Dental Students. They will begin their fellowships at the NIH campus in July and August.  The fellowships afford medical and dental students who have completed their clinical rotations the opportunity to work at NIH for 12 months in their chosen field of clinical or translational research. 

15 April 2007

BETHESDA, Md., April 15—C. Anthony Altar, Ph.D., has joined the staff of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health as director of The Biomarkers Consortium.  The Biomarkers Consortium is a large-scale, public-private biomedical research partnership formed to identify and qualify new, quantitative measures or characteristics — biological markers (“biomarkers”) — for use by biomedical researchers, regulators, and health care providers.

14 November 2006 BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 14--The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced the launch of a public-private partnership to conduct a clinical trial with 300 patients with schizophrenia to determine the effect of aripiprazole vs continued treatment with olanzapine, quetiapine or risperidone on metabolic changes, including weight gain and non-HDL cholesterol, that are common side effects of many schizophrenia treatments. These metabolic changes are associated with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

05 October 2006
WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 5--The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) today   announced the launch of a major public-private biomedical research partnership, The Biomarkers Consortium, to search for and validate new biological markers -biomarkers- to accelerate dramatically the delivery of successful new technologies, medicines, and therapies for prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.

18 September 2006
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 18 – The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health today announced the inaugural Halloween-themed “BOO! Run for Life!”  10K run and two-mile walk.  The event is being organized by friends and family of Dean R. O’Neill to benefit the Foundation for NIH and more specifically the Dean R. O’Neill Renal Cell Cancer Research Fund. 

03 August 2006
BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 1 - Thirty medical students representing 19 schools from around the country have been selected for fellowships in the 2006-2007 Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) for Medical and Dental Students at the National Institutes of Health, it was announced today. The recipients, who have completed clinical rotations at their home institutions, arrive this summer at the NIH to begin 12 months of clinical and translational research training in their chosen field.  This is the program’s tenth year.

01 August 2006

BETHESDA, Md, Aug. 1-The Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), a public-private partnership between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and private industry that seeks to improve diagnosis and monitoring of osteoarthritis (OA) and foster development of new treatments, has released its first set of data.

15 March 2006

BETHESDA, Md., Mar. 15--The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health is soliciting study proposals for inclusion in the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN), it was announced today.  The Foundation for NIH, which manages GAIN, invites investigators at universities and research centers worldwide to submit applications to have existing disease-specific samples from case-control (or similar) studies genotyped at no cost.  Applications will be peer-reviewed by scientific experts from academia, government, and industry.

09 February 2006
The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) -- a project developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- is seeking 800 older adults to participate in a study aimed at identifying biological markers of memory decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Ultimately, scientists hope that brain and biological changes can be detected before memory decline and other symptoms appear, allowing the effectiveness of drugs to be evaluated at the earliest possible time.

08 February 2006
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb.   --The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today announced the launch of a major public-private, large-scale biomedical research partnership—the Genetic Association Identification Network (GAIN)—to unravel in the next three years the genetics of common disease through whole genome association studies. 

08 February 2006 WASHINGTON, DC, Feb.  -The Department of Health and Human Services today announced the creation of two new initiatives to speed up research in the genetic and environmental causes of common diseases such as heart disease, asthma and Alzheimer’s.

27 June 2005
The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, a major effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world’s poorest countries, today offered 43 grants totaling $436.6 million for a broad range of innovative research projects involving scientists in 33 countries.

26 May 2005 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) celebrated the opening of the Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge on Thursday, May 26, at 2 p.m. This new addition offers a temporary residence for families and loved ones of adult patients who are receiving care at the NIH Clinical Center, the nation’s premier hospital for conducting clinical research — research involving patients. The Lodge opens its doors to guests on Wednesday, June 1.

25 May 2005

Battelle is funding a three-year research fellowship in the field of women’s health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  The new Women’s Health Post-doctoral Fellowship will focus on training postdoctoral scientists to address key issues in women’s health research and encouraging multi-disciplinary collaborations to overcome disparities in healthcare between women and men.

15 March 2005 Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., member of the board of directors of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health for 12 years was among eight recipients selected by the National Science Foundation to receive the nation's highest science honor.

04 November 2004
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) announced today the selection of Dr. Stephanie James as an Associate Director of Science for the Grand Challenges in Global Health program.

16 September 2004
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected the 30 participants of its 2004-2005 Clinical Research Training Program for Medical and Dental Students.

07 September 2004
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) announced today the selection of Dr. Michael Gottlieb as an Associate Director of Science for the Grand Challenges in Global Health program.

06 July 2004
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) announced today the appointment of Dr. Daniel J. Carucci as the Director of the Grand Challenges in Global Health program.

17 October 2003
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the first 14 scientific challenges that will be the focus of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative.

9 September 2003
Mark D. Ein and Ellen V. Sigal have joined the board of directors of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, it was announced today.

9 July 2003
NIH - Pharmaceutical Industry Partnership Announces First Grants For Overcoming Barriers to Early Phase Clinical Trials Unique Collaboration Assists Six Cancer Centers Across U.S.

27 June 2003
World Medical Leaders and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health today announced the on-line publication of the first of what is hoped will become a series of broadcast roundtable discussions on pressing medical matters led by eminent NIH physicians.