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NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases


Address

NIAID Office of Communications and Government Relations
5601 Fishers Lane, MSC 9806
Bethesda, MD 20892-9806

Description

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. For more than 60 years, NIAID research has led to new therapies, vaccines, diagnostic tests, and other technologies that have improved the health of millions of people in the United States and around the world.

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Editors:

  1. Vassil St. Georgiev
  2. Karl A. Western
  3. John J. McGowan

  • Includes up-to-date accounts of specific research endeavor presented at the 2006 NIAID Research Conference

  • Contains a detailed overview of the NIH/NIAID mechanisms of research funding of grant applications

  • Explains the management of grants, technology transfer, and bioethical issues

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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  • 79 Citations

  • 1 Altmetric

Sections

Table of contents (54 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii

    PDF

  2. Introduction

  3. Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

    1. Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections

    2. Tuberculosis

    3. Avian Influenza

    4. Prophylactics and Therapeutics for Infectious Diseases

About this book

For over 50 years, the mission of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has been to conduct and support basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases with the ultimate goal of improving the health of individuals in the United States and around the world. As part of its mission to foster biomedical discovery and to reduce the burden of human disease, NIAID is committed to encouraging the accelerated translation of biomedical discoveries into effective clinical care and public health practice throughout the world. In pursuit of this goal and its disease-specific scientific objectives, NIAID seeks to broaden research opportunities and collaborations involving scientists and institutions outside the United States.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH: Volume 1, Frontiers in Research

contains presentations given at the 2006 NIAID Research Conference held in Opatija, Croatia which brought internationally known researchers from the United States and Central and Eastern Europe to focus together on shared interests in microbiology, infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, and basic and clinical immunology. Some of the topics covered include emerging and re-emerging infections, the development of infectious disease prophylactics and therapeutics, drug resistance, and various topics in immunomodulation, autoimmunity, infections and immunity, and the development of vaccines.

Extensive and in-depth, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH: Volume 1, Frontiers in Research is a valuable, comprehensive guide to the state of research today.

Keywords

  • AIDS
  • AIDS prevention
  • Autoimmunity
  • Basic and clinical immunology
  • Drug resistance
  • HIV
  • Hepatitis
  • Immunomodulation
  • Vaccine development
  • antiviral drug
  • autoimmune disease
  • bacterial infections
  • infections
  • infectious
  • infectious disease
  • infectious diseases

Reviews

From the reviews:

"This introduction to the structure, activities, and mission of the NIAID includes a section on building a sustainable research career. … The book is intended for students and early career biomedical researchers … . Useful introductory and career planning sections help readers understand the NIH and the grant writing process." (Kari A. Simonsen, Doody’s Review Services, January, 2009)

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 1: Frontiers in Research

  • Editors: Vassil St. Georgiev, Karl A. Western, John J. McGowan

  • Series Title: Infectious Disease

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-569-5

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Humana Press 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-934115-77-0

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-944-4

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59745-569-5

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 530

  • Number of Illustrations: 115 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Immunology, Diseases, Microbiology, Allergology

What does National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases do?

NIAID provides health information on allergic, infectious, and immunologic diseases. Diseases include food allergy, sinusitis, and genital herpes.

Is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases a government agency?

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, /ˈnaɪ. æd/) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Who owns the National Institute of health?

It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Who appoints the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases?

A Director of a national research institute or national center who is appointed by the Secretary, acting through the Director of National Institutes of Health, shall be appointed for 5 years.