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Requesting Comments on NCCIH’s Draft Strategic Plan
March 30, 2016
Josephine P. Briggs, M.D.
NCCIH solicits opinions on its 2016-2021 draft Strategic Plan.
NIH Scientific Summit on Marijuana and Cannabinoids Begins March 22
March 18, 2016
David Shurtleff, Ph.D.
This blog post announces the upcoming NIH event: "Marijuana and Cannabinoids: A Neuroscience Research Summit” to be held March 22-23, 2016.
Council Member Discusses Antibiotics-Microbiota-Obesity Connection
March 15, 2016
NCCIH Research Blog Team
At the council’s February 5, 2016, meeting, Dr. Martin Blaser spoke on “Perturbing the Early Life Microbiome and Its Consequences.”
NCCIH Clinician-Scientist Workforce Working Group Report
March 4, 2016
Partap S. Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D.
In this blog post, Dr. Partap Khalsa reports on the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health Working Group on Clinician-Scientist Workforce Development.
Advisory Council Meets on February 5th
February 1, 2016
NCCIH Research Blog Team
This week, on February 5th, the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health will hold its first meeting of 2016. We always look forward to the great information, dialogue, and energy at our advisory council meetings.
Fraser’s Dyer Lecture Explores Probiotics and the Human Gut
January 22, 2016
Linda Duffy, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Claire Fraser's NIH lecture on the functional dynamics of the gut microbiome in health and disease is now available online. In her talk, Dr. Fraser focused on the intriguing possibility that the gut microbiota may play an important role in response to vaccines and susceptibility to enteric pathogens.
Take Notice of NIH Guide Notices for 2016 Grant Applications
January 14, 2016
Dale Birkle Dreer, Ph.D.
In this blog post, Dr. Dale Birkle Dreer, chief of NCCIH's Office of Scientific Review, discusses updates to policies, forms, and instructions for grant applications in 2016.
NCCIH Notable Research From 2015
January 5, 2016
Josephine P. Briggs, M.D.
In this blog post, NCCIH Director Dr. Josephine Briggs calls attention to some of the eminent research performed by NCCIH grantees in 2015.
NCCIH-Funded Research on Opioids Highlighted in Science and Nature
December 21, 2015
John S. Williamson, Ph.D.
In this blog post, Dr. John S. Williamson congratulates NCCIH grantee Dr. Christina Smolke and her colleagues for engineering a yeast strain capable of synthesizing opioids.