Speaker/Presenter: Mukul Ranjan, Ph.D Office of Technology Development National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

1. The NIH:
An Attractive Partner for Collaboration
Mukul Ranjan, Ph.D
Office of Technology Development
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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2. Outline
• About the NIH
• Working with the NIH
• Technology Transfer
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3. National Institutes of Health
• Annual budget of $ 29.5 billion (2008)
• 10% of funding for intramural research
• 6,000 intramural scientists
• Approximately 2000 Research Projects
• 325,000 grantee investigators worldwide
• Basic clinical research discoveries
• Manufacture of products with Industry
• Technology transfer staff of ~150
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