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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

NIH R50 funding opportunity to provide salary support for Research Software Engineers who work on developing or disseminating biomedical-related software, tools, or algorithms. Next deadline is Weds 6/4/2025. Details: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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RFA-OD-24-011: NIH Research Software Engineer (RSE) Award (R50 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: NIH Research Software Engineer (RSE) Award (R50 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) RFA-OD-24-011. OD

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

To people interested in technologies such as organoids, computational models, real-world data (and others): NIH is announcing a new initiative to expand innovative, human-based science in research. Aligns with FDA initiative to reduce testing in animals. Details: www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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NIH to prioritize human-based research technologies

New initiative aims to reduce use of animals in NIH-funded research.

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

NIH is sponsoring a $1M Data Sharing Index ("S-Index") Challenge to develop a metric for assessing how effectively researchers share useful data. Can use to build more culture of open/team science. Webinar coming up (Tues 1/28/25, 12pm ET): bit.ly/4h8vgrs More info about Challenge: bit.ly/4abRypX

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Here's a website that describes the NIH "s-index challenge" to promote data sharing by developing a robust metric to identify exemplary data sharers. National Eye Institute is excited lead a large group of participating NIH institutes (shown on website). www.freelancer.com/contest/NIH-...

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NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge

Check out this contest and enter now!

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

There is a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy. This is based on the premise that increasing access to publications resulting from NIH funding offers many benefits to the scientific community as well as the public. Details: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-25-047: 2024 NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: 2024 NIH Public Access Policy NOT-OD-25-047. OD

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Dry eye disease is very common and can be extremely frustrating for people, yet there are surprisingly few FDA-approved drug options. Here's a video about an eye-on-a-chip model that creates a potential experimental drug testing platform (NEI-funded): www.youtube.com/watch?si=LfU...

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A New Device Helps Treat Dry Eye

YouTube video by National Eye Institute, NIH

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

There is planning at NIH to inform a potential major Common Fund program called "Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)". If interested: virtual strategic planning workshop (3/11-12/2025). Free registration. Details: commonfund.nih.gov/potential-pr...

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Strategic Planning Workshop | NIH Common FundLock

Strategic Planning WorkshopMarch 11-12, 2025, 11AM – 5PM ET | VirtualRegistration now open!

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Today, Marla Feller (@mfeller.bsky.social) from UC-Berkeley delivered the Sayer Vision Research Lecture at NIH. Beautiful talk about visual neuroscience & development entitled "Riding the retinal wave through visual system development".

Photo of Dr. Marla Feller speaking at NIH.

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Here are some photos of National Eye Institute staff from our recent Director's Awards Ceremony. Truly privileged to work with this amazing group of people!

Photo from National Eye Institute Director's Awards ceremony.

Photo from National Eye Institute Director's Awards ceremony (Tiarnan Keenan, Emily Chew)

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Superb meeting hosted by @elsevierconnect.bsky.social on "Tomorrow Today in Research: Perspectives from Government, Industry, Academia" Fascinating discussions with extremely thoughtful & accomplished speakers about how we can create better research culture for societal impact of work.

Jenny Luray, Tina Zdawczyk, Heather Richter, Charles Isbell, Angela Bednarek.

Charles Johnson-Bey, Pramod Khargonekar, Susan Martinis, Grace Yuan, Ann Gabriel

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Incredible AI for Science meeting hosted by @deep-mind.bsky.social and @royalsociety.bsky.social: Great talks on impact & future directions in health, science, sustainability by Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, Jennifer Doudna, Tom Friedman, @erictopol.bsky.social, Hannah Fry, more. Many ideas...!

Hannah Fry, Sir Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, Dennifer Doudna, Sir Paul Nurse

Eric Topol, Pushmeet Kohli, Fiona Marshall, Alison Noble

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Data sharing is a key feature of 21st-century science, yet researchers often feel disincentivized to share with others. There is a new NIH "s-index challenge" to address this gap. Here's an article from @thetransmitter.bsky.social about it: www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

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The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success

The NIH-sponsored effort aims to help incentivize scientists to share data. But many barriers to the widespread adoption of useful data-sharing remain.

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Was only at the AMIA 2024 meeting for 2 days, but had a chance to see some old colleagues & friends from the biomedical #informatics community. Pics from American College of Medical Informatics induction (Katie Zhu). @ted-shortliffe.bsky.social @jamescimino.bsky.social @vimla-patel.bsky.social

Photo of people seated around table at AMIA 2024 annual meeting (American College of Medical Informatics induction ceremony).

Photo of Michael Chiang and Ted Shortliffe.

Photo of Michelle Hribar and Michael Chiang.

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Cerebral/cortical visual impairment (CVI) has become a leading cause of visual impairment among children in the US. Here's a LinkedIn article on the topic that references recent publications in Ophthalmology and Pediatrics. www.linkedin.com/posts/chiang...

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Michael F. Chiang on LinkedIn: Advances in cerebral/cortical visual impairment

Advances in cerebral/cortical visual impairment

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