October 16, 2026

Many research questions in biomedical science can be pursued by single investigators and their close collaborators. However, some scientific problems require investigators with complementary expertise to work as an integrated, interdependent team. The newly issued Collaborative Program Grant for Interdisciplinary Teams broad funding announcement brings several NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) together to support integrated team science. 

Domestic Annual Reports for the reporting period of October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, are due to the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) by December 1, 2026, for domestic institutions with an approved Domestic Animal Welfare Assurance.

Transparency is the cornerstone of public trust and is essential to advancing rigorous, gold-standard science. Since I began leading NIH, I have been committed to strengthening public trust through greater transparency across all NIH-supported research, with the goal of improving health for all Americans. One important pillar to support this vision is that contributors to scientific publications must be recognized for their work. 

The NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) provides a centralized repository of tools and resources that aims to maximize the potential of eukaryotic research organisms and their genomic data for biomedical discovery. By bringing high-quality data and common tools together, CGR addresses some key challenges in genomics science, including inconsistencies in data quality and data siloed in separate systems.