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Transformative R01 Round Table Discussion: 3-D Tissue Models

The NIH has issued a Roadmap initiative calling for “Transformative R01” applications (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-08-029.html). Since this will be a new program, we anticipate that the research community will have many questions. NIH will host a meeting to help establish a dialog and begin to address some of these questions for one of the “areas of highlighted need that have been identified through an NIH strategic planning process” in this initiative, specifically the generation of complex, 3-dimensional tissue models.

The meeting will be a “Round Table Discussion” hosted by Dr. Alan Krensky (Director, NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives) and will include about a dozen discussants with experience in the area of in vitro engineered tissues. The discussion will be held on the NIH campus, Building 31/Conference Room 10 on Friday, October 24, 2008, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM. The broad objective will be to illuminate potential transformative research for the field—to distinguish between incremental progress and work that will truly disrupt current paradigms, or create new ones where none exist. This will be an open meeting and will also be broadcast live from the NIH Videocast web site (http://videocast.nih.gov/). There is also a link to the meeting from the NIH Roadmap web site at: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov.

Invited Discussants:

• Linda Griffith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Jonathan Garlick (Tufts University)
• Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis (Sloan-Kettering Institute)
• Christy Haynes (University of Minnesota)
• Meenhard Herlyn (Wistar Institute)
• Karen Hirschi (Baylor College of Medicine)
• Michelle LaPlaca (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Milan Mrksich (University of Chicago)
• David Mooney (Harvard University)
• Cheryl Nickerson (Arizona State University)
• Shuichi Takayama (University of Michigan)
• Herman Vandenburgh (Brown University)
• Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (Columbia University)

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