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Welcome to the NIH Common Fund

Bold science, catalyzing discoveries

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Our Mission

The NIH Common Fund is a funding entity within NIH that supports bold scientific programs that catalyze discovery across all biomedical and behavioral research. These programs create a space where investigators and multiple NIH Institutes and Centers collaborate on innovative research expected to address high priority challenges for the NIH as a whole and make a broader impact in the scientific community.

Science Highlights

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Researchers Break New Ground Treating Gut Inflammation with Designer Bacteria

Trillions of microbes live in our gut, helping to digest food, supporting the immune system, and fighting disease-causing bacteria.

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New isolation method yields greater capture of small biological particles outside cells

The new isolation process is conducted on a microscopic device...

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New Database Supports Open Science in Study of Particles That Exist Outside Cells

The NanoFlow Repository is established to provide a place for researchers to share their extracellular particle data...

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Researchers Expand Resource to Map Communication Between Cells

Providing new information about interactions between exRNA and certain proteins that carry exRNA in biofluids known as RNA binding proteins (RBPs)...

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Modeling the Keys to Cellular Memory

4D Nucleome researchers discover the requirements for persistent cellular memory with an epigenetic model

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Prize Challenge Seeking Ideas for New Approach Methodologies to Transform Biomedical Research

The Common Fund has issued a prize competition for the Complement-Animal Research in Experimentation Challenge.

This page last reviewed on February 6, 2024