Announcements  Director's Message from Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
June 20, 2024 I'm proud to share that the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has just announced a new funding opportunity under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Whole Person Initiative that will transform our ability to conduct whole person research. NCCIH, along with 14 other Institutes, Centers, and Offices at NIH, is seeking applications to establish a Whole Person Research and Coordination Center (Whole Person RCC) that will provide the necessary infrastructure to help researchers explore how our bodies' different systems interact with one another. |  In a new study from Carnegie Mellon University, volunteers' ability to type letters with their minds using a noninvasive brain-computer interface increased in response to ultrasound stimulation of a brain area associated with visual motion processing. This research, which was partly funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and is part of the National Institutes of Health Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative, was published in the journal Nature Communications. |  The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), seeks to identify an outstanding physician for the position of Director, Office of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs (OCRA). The mission of NCCIH is to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care. In support of this mission, NCCIH funds a varied portfolio of grants, including randomized clinical trials and observational and epidemiological studies, with the goals of testing the safety and efficacy of complementary and integrative health approaches and better understanding of "real world" patterns and outcomes of complementary and integrative health interventions and their integration into health care and health promotion. The application deadline is July 3, 2024. | Resources for Researchers Highlighted Funding Opportunities Diversity Resources Upcoming Events  June 28, 2024, 10:00 a.m.-12:05 p.m. ET; Virtual This meeting will provide opportunities to share advances across three National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded force-based manipulation research networks, promote collaboration, and avoid duplication of network efforts. The meeting's open session will featured updates from the trans-network scientific working groups and a keynote presentation by Valeria Vásquez, Ph.D., associate professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Register now. | July 15-16, 2024; NIH Videocast Join the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory for a free virtual workshop to examine actions researchers can take during planning and application development (phase zero) to create efficient, large-scale pragmatic clinical trials that generate actionable evidence to drive change across a variety of settings. The workshop will feature a highly anticipated keynote presentation from Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, director of the National Institutes of Health, on Day 2. Register now.  July 29, 2024, 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m. ET; NIH Videocast A promising area of medical research is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to analyze large sets of data in order to gain better understanding of the development of disease (pathogenesis) and the restoration of health (salutogenesis). Dr. Aaron Lee is co-principal investigator on the AI-READI project, funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund's "Bridge to Artificial Intelligence" (Bridge2AI) program. AI-READI is generating high-quality, multimodal, and ethically sourced data that will be ready for AI/ML methods to study salutogenesis in the context of type 2 diabetes. In addition to describing AI-READI, Dr. Lee will also discuss researching the health of the whole person, not just separate organs or body systems, and AI/ML advances from ophthalmology. Registration is not required. Watch the livestream. The lecture is part of NCCIH's Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series, which provides overviews of the current state of research and practice involving complementary health approaches and explores perspectives on integrative health. | NIH will host two webinars for interested applicants. Please register in advance. - Technical Assistance Webinar
July 30, 2024
11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. ET
Overview of the funding opportunity, presentation of review considerations, and question-and-answer session. - Networking Webinar
August 14, 2024
11 a.m.–noon ET
Meet and greet with potential partners or collaborators needed to form strong multidisciplinary applicant teams. In case you missed it... A summary is available if you missed the June 18 webinar for those interested in applying to RFA-AT-24-009. REACH virtual resource centers will foster institutional partnerships and provide resources to support research activities and research training for faculty who work at partnering U.S. domestic complementary and integrative health clinical institutions, such as: schools of acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathy, naturopathy, physical therapy, and music and art therapy. Applications are due August 30, 2024. |
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