MLA-Phil

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers support for basic and applied research in biomedical informatics and bioinformatics. The scope of NLM’s interest in the research domain of informatics is interdisciplinary, encompassing basic informatics problem areas in the application domains of health care and health administration, public health, basic biomedical research, clinical translational research and health information management in disasters. Thus, in most instances, informatics projects of interest to NLM involve the application of computer and information sciences to information problems in a biomedical domain. NLM defines biomedical  informatics as the science of optimal organization, management, presentation and utililization of information relevant to medicine and biology. Informatics research produces concepts, tools and approaches that contribute to what is known about the capture, storage, integration, representation, management, dissemination and use of data, information and knowledge. NLM also supports research projects focused on biomedical (rather than informatics) research questions,  but approached exclusively by novel or advanced informatics techniques applied to information and data produced by others.

The complete Funding Opportunity Announcement, PAR-08-080, can be found here: