Program Snapshot

The NIH Common Fund’s Metabolomics program aims to increase national capacity in metabolomics by supporting the development of next generation technologies to enhance the sensitivity and speed with which specific elements of the cellular metabolome can be identified and quantified, providing training and mentoring opportunities, increasing the inventory of chemically identifiable metabolites through the synthesis and availability of high quality reference standards, and by promoting data sharing and collaboration.

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Program Highlights

Scientific Symposium on Metabolomics

Scientific Symposium: Metabolomics, the Underlying Basis of Disease was hosted at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine. Both Dr. Stephen Barnes and Dr. Andrew Patterson grantees of the Metabolomics program presented at the symposium. An overview, agenda with copies of the presentations given at the Symposium can be found here.

Learn more about Metabolomics Initiatives

• The NIH Common Fund is taking a comprehensive approach to increasing the research capacity in metabolomics by funding a variety of initiatives in this area, including training, technology development, standards synthesis, and data sharing capability for this new field.
  View the Metabolomics Press Release.
  
  
• The International Conference of the Metabolomics Society met in Washington, DC on June 2012. For conference information visit www.metabolomics2012.org
  
  
• The National Institutes of Health Common Fund Working Group on Metabolomics organized a workshop on Metabolomics and Translational Research, in the spring of 2011. The goal of the workshop was to help NIH identify and prioritize opportunities to further the use of metabolomics in translational research across the interests of the entire NIH.
  View the 2011 Meeting Report

Learn more about the Metabolomics Community

• Join the NIH Metabolomics Scientific Interest Group here.
  
  
• NIH Symposium on State of Metabolomics Technologies in Translational Research. Videocast of the Symposium can be found here.