Biomedical Technology

NCRR's Division of Biomedical Technology supports research to discover, create, and develop innovative technologies and provides access to these technologies to the biomedical research community, through the following programs. READ FACT SHEET >> (141 KB PDF, requires free Acrobat Reader)

Biomedical Technology Research Centers

These specialized centers — more than 50 at academic and research institutions nationwide — make available a broad spectrum of technologies, techniques, and methodologies to the biomedical research community. READ MORE >>

Shared Instrumentation Grants

The Shared Instrumentation Grant program continues to operate on its regular schedule. The FY 2013 SIG Program Announcement has been published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts.

These competitive grant programs award funds to institutions so they may purchase state-of the art technologies, helping researchers to remain at the forefront of biology and medicine.

Biomedical Informatics Research Network

This consortium of more than 28 universities and 37 research groups supports the integration of data, expertise, and unique technologies to spur scientific advances that would be difficult or impossible in the context of individual laboratories. READ MORE >>

Research Grants for Technology Research and Development

Investigator-Initiated Research Grants

Technology-driven, investigator-initiated research project grants leading to new or improved instruments, technologies, devices, and methodologies that will have broad application to biomedical research. READ MORE >>

Small Business Opportunities

Programs seeking to increase the participation of small businesses in federally supported research and development and to increase private sector commercialization of resulting technologies with broad application to biomedical research. READ MORE >>

NIH Common Fund Programs

Interdisciplinary Research Centers

This initiative seeks to lower artificial barriers that divide biomedical researchers and impede scientific progress. READ MORE >>

National Centers for Biomedical Computing

The centers create innovative software programs and other tools that enable the biomedical community to integrate, analyze, model, simulate, and share data on human health and disease. READ MORE

Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways

This initiative focuses on the development of new technologies to study the dynamics of molecular interactions within cells. READ MORE