Case Study: Biomedical Research Infrastructure Program
Connecting Research and Researchers
ORCID is improving accuracy in scholarship and scientific research, one 16 digit number at a time.
ORCID is improving accuracy in scholarship and scientific research, one 16 digit number at a time.
Our Biomedical Research Infrastructure Program was designed to lower barriers to discovery through preclinical infrastructure development.
***Please note that the Biomedical Research Infrastructure Program is actively winding down and we are no longer accepting proposals for new grants in this field.***
Advances in biomedical research are essential to produce breakthrough discoveries for the improvement of human health. However, the research enterprise currently faces a number of systemic challenges that increasingly threaten its productivity. Among these are four prominent issues:
These systemic issues are linked to an alarming excess of wasted resources, including time, money and equipment; substantial growth in the number of retracted papers; and a lack of reproducible published studies – all of which place significant but avoidable limits on potential innovation within the biomedical sciences.
We believe a nontraditional focus on enhancing the underlying infrastructure for biomedical research can facilitate biomedical advances and catalyze a shift toward improved research practices.
These grants support the development of virtual tools that improve the ability to access, search, retrieve, and produce quality preclinical research.
These grants support practices necessary for improving research quality, including courses, fellowships, and programming promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration, skill development, and incentives to create high-quality research products.
These grants support the development of software and other modes to enable fluid exchange of ideas and information among scientists for preclinical projects.