Message from the NIBIB Director: NIBIB is strongly committed to expanding the scientific workforce and supporting excellence throughout the biomedical research community. With a focus on the development of more powerful and effective technologies that can be accessed by all populations, we need innovators both within and outside NIBIB from every part of the country. We will support a community with unique capabilities in engineering, physical science, computation, biology, and medicine and promote career growth at all stages.
NIBIB funds research in a variety of scientific areas in biomedical imaging, bioengineering, and informatics, and training for researchers throughout the career span. Search a list of all NIBIB-supported opportunities at this link.
Activities and Initiatives
NIBIB, along with its collaborators, is working on an effort to develop at-home diagnostic tests for COVID-19 that can be used independently by people with disabilities. Find out more about this initiative.
Best Practices for the Design of COVID-19 Home Tests document is now available on the U.S. Access Board website. These recommendations for developers and manufacturers are also applicable to other diagnostic products.
NIBIB has established a new trans-NIH center within its Intramural Research Program to accelerate the development, validation, and dissemination of high-impact biomedical technologies. Central to NIH BETA’s mission will be employing evidence-driven approaches to expand and support scientific workforce development within the Intramural Research Program.
Enhancing Biomedical Engineering, Imaging, and Technology Acceleration (BEITA) at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
The HBCU BEITA program is to enhance bioengineering and imaging research capacity, technology innovation, education and research training, and opportunities for scientific growth at HBCUs in order to utilize the Nation's full range of talent in meeting the growing need to accelerate the development and translation of high-impact biomedical innovation and technologies. Details and apply at: RFA-EB-23-006.
DEBUT challenges undergraduate student teams to develop technology solutions to unmet needs in any area of healthcare. Many of the solutions address a range of health disparities.
POCTRN drives the development of technologies through collaborative efforts that merge scientific and technological capabilities with clinical need. Many of the solutions could be applied to underserved populations.
The Science Collaborative for Health disparities and Artificial Intelligence bias REduction (ScHARe) is an innovative social science data repository and multidisciplinary platform. This cloud-based platform designed to accelerate research in minority health and health disparities, health care outcomes, and artificial intelligence bias mitigation strategies. Learn more about these resources.
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NIH has announced winners of the RADx® Tech Fetal Monitoring Challenge, a $2 million prize competition to speed development of innovative medical technologies for fetal health diagnosis, detection and monitoring.
Labs that can’t afford expensive super-resolution microscopes could use a new expansion technique to image nanoscale structures inside cells. Source: MIT News
The National Institutes of Health and the higher education non-profit VentureWell have selected 11 winners and five honorable mentions in the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, who are set to receive prizes totaling $160,000.