NIH R50 funding opportunity to provide salary support for Research Software Engineers who work on developing or disseminating biomedical-related software, tools, or algorithms. Next deadline is Weds 6/4/2025. Details: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

To people interested in technologies such as organoids, computational models, real-world data (and others): NIH is announcing a new initiative to expand innovative, human-based science in research. Aligns with FDA initiative to reduce testing in animals. Details: www.nih.gov/news-events/...

NIH to prioritize human-based research technologies

New initiative aims to reduce use of animals in NIH-funded research.

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NIH is sponsoring a $1M Data Sharing Index ("S-Index") Challenge to develop a metric for assessing how effectively researchers share useful data. Can use to build more culture of open/team science. Webinar coming up (Tues 1/28/25, 12pm ET): bit.ly/4h8vgrs More info about Challenge: bit.ly/4abRypX

Here's a website that describes the NIH "s-index challenge" to promote data sharing by developing a robust metric to identify exemplary data sharers. National Eye Institute is excited lead a large group of participating NIH institutes (shown on website). www.freelancer.com/contest/NIH-...

NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge

Check out this contest and enter now!

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Last year, the National Eye Institute held a workshop on extracellular vesicles for vision research (needs, gaps, opportunities). Here's a white paper that summarizes key findings from that workshop: isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A perspective from the National Eye Institute Extracellular Vesicle Workshop: Gaps, needs, and opportunities for studies of extracellular vesicles in vision research

With an evolving understanding and new discoveries in extracellular vesicle (EV) biology and their implications in health and disease, the significant diagnostic and therapeutic potential of EVs for ...

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There is a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy. This is based on the premise that increasing access to publications resulting from NIH funding offers many benefits to the scientific community as well as the public. Details: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Dry eye disease is very common and can be extremely frustrating for people, yet there are surprisingly few FDA-approved drug options. Here's a video about an eye-on-a-chip model that creates a potential experimental drug testing platform (NEI-funded): www.youtube.com/watch?si=LfU...

A New Device Helps Treat Dry Eye

YouTube video by National Eye Institute, NIH

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Using stem cells to treat corneal injury

YouTube video by National Eye Institute, NIH

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There is planning at NIH to inform a potential major Common Fund program called "Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)". If interested: virtual strategic planning workshop (3/11-12/2025). Free registration. Details: commonfund.nih.gov/potential-pr...

Here's an amazing multimodal dataset optimized for #AI research in type 2 #diabetes (clinical/EHR, imaging, blood, urine, questionnaires, activity & continuous glucose monitoring, environmental data, more...). @natureportfolio.bsky.social, funded by NIH Bridge2AI: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

AI-READI: rethinking AI data collection, preparation and sharing in diabetes research and beyond - Nature Metabolism

Here, we introduce Artificial Intelligence Ready and Equitable Atlas for Diabetes Insights (AI-READI), a multidisciplinary data-generation project designed to create and share a multimodal dataset opt...

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Interesting article from The Scientist about careers in science policy. I've loved working with so many people like this at NIH! www.the-scientist.com/what-does-a-...

What Does a Career in Science Policy Entail?

Science policy plays a crucial role in shaping research and funding, but its science policy analysts who evaluate and refine these policies to ensure that they effectively support scientific progress ...

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Today, Marla Feller (@mfeller.bsky.social) from UC-Berkeley delivered the Sayer Vision Research Lecture at NIH. Beautiful talk about visual neuroscience & development entitled "Riding the retinal wave through visual system development".

Quick story from @nypost.com.web.brid.gy a NYC traffic light that was installed upside-down. Quotes Bevil Conway from National Eye Institute about potential confusion for people with red-green color blindness... nypost.com/2024/12/07/u...

Exclusive | Traffic light installed upside-down in NYC — and it’s stayed that way for months

The city installed an upside-down traffic light outside a Tribeca bar — and it’s been blinking away for months, The Post has learned.

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Here are some photos of National Eye Institute staff from our recent Director's Awards Ceremony. Truly privileged to work with this amazing group of people!

Superb meeting hosted by @elsevierconnect.bsky.social on "Tomorrow Today in Research: Perspectives from Government, Industry, Academia" Fascinating discussions with extremely thoughtful & accomplished speakers about how we can create better research culture for societal impact of work.

If you haven't heard: @arpa-h.bsky.social has announced teams that will be working to enable whole-eye transplantation to restore vision for the blind & visually impaired. A bold goal! Details: arpa-h.gov/news-and-eve...

ARPA-H announces pioneering investments to restore vision to people who are blind

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supports transformative research to drive biomedical and health breakthroughs ranging from molecular to societal to provide transformative hea...

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Incredible AI for Science meeting hosted by @deep-mind.bsky.social and @royalsociety.bsky.social: Great talks on impact & future directions in health, science, sustainability by Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, Jennifer Doudna, Tom Friedman, @erictopol.bsky.social, Hannah Fry, more. Many ideas...!

Data sharing is a key feature of 21st-century science, yet researchers often feel disincentivized to share with others. There is a new NIH "s-index challenge" to address this gap. Here's an article from @thetransmitter.bsky.social about it: www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Was only at the AMIA 2024 meeting for 2 days, but had a chance to see some old colleagues & friends from the biomedical #informatics community. Pics from American College of Medical Informatics induction (Katie Zhu). @ted-shortliffe.bsky.social @jamescimino.bsky.social @vimla-patel.bsky.social

Cerebral/cortical visual impairment (CVI) has become a leading cause of visual impairment among children in the US. Here's a LinkedIn article on the topic that references recent publications in Ophthalmology and Pediatrics. www.linkedin.com/posts/chiang...

Michael F. Chiang on LinkedIn: Advances in cerebral/cortical visual impairment

Advances in cerebral/cortical visual impairment

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