Key Dates

Related Announcements

• November 29, 2023 - Request for Information on Themes for the NIAMS Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2025-2029. See Notice NOT-AR-23-022.
• July 6, 2022 - Request for Information (RFI) on the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2025-2029. See Notice NOT-AR-22-023. 

Issued by

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

Purpose

Background

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) is updating its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2025-2029 to help guide the research it supports over the next 5 years. The institute issued two previous Requests for Information (NOT-AR-22-023 and NOT-AR-23-022) to solicit comments on cross-cutting thematic opportunities where NIAMS can be best positioned to make a difference in people’s lives and on bold aspirations that the research community is poised to accomplish in the next half-decade. The institute also gathered additional input through a three-day virtual idea-generation meeting with the community. Based on this feedback, along with input from the NIAMS Advisory Council, the Institute has drafted the NIAMS FYs 2025-2029 Strategic Plan. We are now seeking input on this draft.

Information Requested

Through this RFI, NIAMS invites feedback from researchers in academia and industry, health care professionals, patient advocates and health advocacy organizations, scientific or professional organizations, Federal agencies, and other interested members of the public on the draft NIAMS FYs 2025-2029 Strategic Plan. Organizations are strongly encouraged to submit a single response that reflects the views of their organization and entire membership.

Please provide your comments and feedback. The final draft of the Strategic Plan will be presented at the September 2024 meeting of the NIAMS Advisory Council and posted on the NIAMS website when it is approved.

How to Submit a Response

Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically at https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=66561d7234a0a46a43032172.

Responses must be received by Sunday, August 18, 2024.

Responses to this RFI are voluntary. Do not include any proprietary, classified, confidential, trade secret, or sensitive information in your response. The responses will be reviewed by NIAMS staff and leadership. Individual feedback will not be provided to any respondent. NIAMS will use the information submitted in response to this RFI at its discretion and will not provide comments to any respondent’s submission. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. The Government reserves the right to use any submitted information on public NIH websites, in reports, in summaries of the state of the science, in any possible resultant solicitation(s), grant(s), or cooperative agreement(s), or in the development of future funding opportunity announcements.

This RFI is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation, grant, or cooperative agreement, or as an obligation on the part of the Federal Government, the NIH, or individual NIH Institutes and Centers to provide support for any ideas identified in response to it. The Government will not pay for the preparation of any information submitted or for the Government’s use of such information. No basis for claims against the U.S. Government shall arise as a result of a response to this request for information or from the Government’s use of such information.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Jonelle K. Drugan, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Scientific Planning, Policy, and Analysis Branch
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
Email: niamslrpfeedback@mail.nih.gov