NIH Common Fund Song Competition

Welcome to the NIH Common Fund Song Competition page. From this page you can find and view all the Song Lyrics our grantees submitted to share the mission of the NIH Common Fund or their individual research in creative ways! The competition is part of the 10-Year Commemoration of the NIH Roadmap and NIH Common Fund. To learn more about the competition in general, visit: http://commonfund.nih.gov/Contests/index.

NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins, will select a song as the winner of the contest and perform it live during the June 19th NIH Common Fund 10th Anniversary Research Symposium. For more information about the Symposium, which will be videocast world-wide, visit: http://commonfund.nih.gov/commemoration.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF THE COMMON FUND COMMEMORATION SONG CONTEST!
Dr. Collins liked the two finalists in the Common Fund Commemoration Song Contest so much that he declared them both winners and performed both songs live during the June 19th Common Fund 10th Anniversary Research Symposium.

The winners are:

• “The NIH Common Fund (Say Hey)” Dr. David Chambers, NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• "Song for the Common Fund in Year 10” Dr. Gene Robinson and Dr. Claudia Lutz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Disclaimer: Songs are for educational purposes only. Contest participants and winners receive no monetary compensation/award for their participation. Inclusion of a song in the competition does not constitute endorsement by the NIH. The views expressed in the songs are not necessarily those of the NIH.

Song Title	Contestant Name	Affiliation	Song Lyrics	Listen to the Song
My Boss likes ROS	Chad Glen	Melissa Kemp Lab, Georgia Istitute of Technology
The NIH Common Fund (Say Hey)	David Chambers	National Institute of Mental Health
King of the Roadmap	Mark R. Burge	University of New Mexico Clinical & Translational Science Center
We are the Common Fund	Robert M. Califf	Duke University
The Common Fund Song	Kirsten E. Fleischmann	University of California San Francisco
We are the Common Fund	Sally Akarolo-Anthony	Clement Adebamowo Lab, Institute of Human Virology
A Song for the Common Fund in Year 10	Claudia Lutz and Gene Robinson	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
96 Tubes	John LaCava	Michael Rout Lab, Rockefeller University
Pull the Pin	John LaCava	Michael Rout Lab, Rockefeller University
Achy George Heart	Monica Moya	Steven George Lab, University of California Irvine
The Power of Innovation in Health	James Njogu Kiarie	University of Nairobi
The Epi-State	Christopher E. Mason	Margaret Ross Lab, Weill Cornell Medical College
THE GHUCCTS Song	Thomas A. Mellman	Georgetown Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science
KOMP Mouse Fly	Eric Engelhard	Kent Lloyd Lab, University of California Davis
BEST Shop	Ambika Mathur	Wayne State University
Light at the end of the Tunnel	John N. Clore	Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Clinical and Translational Research
SUMO	Yuan Chen	City of Hope
Design from Proteomusic by "Twisted Helices"	Ram Samudrala	University of Washington
Translation from Proteomusic by "Twisted Helices"	Ram Samudrala	University of Washington