About The Roadmap

The Roadmap is a new initiative from the National Institutes of Health that encourages researchers to attack difficult problems using interdisciplinary collaboration and sophisticated computational techniques and informatics to create quick translations to patient care. Allied projects will make the Roadmap much larger than its core funding.

Three Themes Emerge:

New Pathways to Discovery

• Building Blocks, Pathways, and Networks
• Molecular Libraries and Imaging
• Structural Biology
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Nanomedicine

Research Teams of the Future

• High-Risk Research
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Public Private Partnerships

Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise

• Clinical Research

The Roadmap Will

• Guide medical progress in the 21st century
• Identify major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research
• Transform scientific knowledge into tangible benefits for people