[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 59 (Thursday, March 26, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17090-17091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-06271]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Notice To Announce Request for Information on the Development of 
the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases 
Strategic Plan

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.

ACTION: Request for Information.

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SUMMARY: This Request for Information (RFI) is intended to gather broad 
public input to assist the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive 
and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in developing the NIDDK Strategic Plan. 
NIDDK invites input from: The scientific research community; patients 
and caregivers; health care providers and health advocacy 
organizations; scientific and professional organizations; federal 
agencies; and other stakeholders, including interested members of the 
public. Organizations are strongly encouraged to submit a single 
response that reflects the views of their organization and their 
membership as a whole.

DATES: Comments must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on May 18, 2020 
to ensure consideration.

ADDRESSES: All comments must be submitted electronically on the 
submission website, available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/rfi/rfi.cfm?ID=106.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please direct all inquiries to: Lisa

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Gansheroff, [email protected], 301.496.6623.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the 21st Century Cures 
Act, NIH is required to regularly update their strategic plans. The 
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases 
(NIDDK) is embarking on an Institute-wide strategic planning process. 
The goal of the process is to develop a broad vision for accelerating 
research into the causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases and 
conditions within the Institute's mission. This overarching trans-NIDDK 
Strategic Plan will complement NIDDK's disease-specific planning 
efforts. The strategic plan will have a 5-year time horizon but will 
also include planning for longer term efforts that could be initiated 
within this time frame.
    A critical component of this strategic planning process is to seek 
input from the research and patient communities and others who have an 
interest in research within the mission of NIDDK. As part of that 
approach, the purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to 
invite input on opportunities and strategies to advance NIDDK's 
mission.
    NIDDK will use responses collected as part of this RFI to inform 
the development of the Institute-wide Strategic Plan, which will be 
posted in draft form for additional public comment.
    NIDDK conducts and supports biomedical research and research 
training and disseminates science-based information on: Diabetes and 
other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, including 
liver, gastrointestinal, and other diseases; nutritional disorders; 
obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases, to improve 
people's health and quality of life. Based on this mission, NIDDK has 
formulated the following broad themes for input, as a starting point 
for the planning process:

Themes for Input

     Advancing understanding of biological pathways and 
environmental contributors to health and disease.
     Advancing progress in pivotal clinical studies and trials 
for prevention, treatment, and cures in diverse populations.
     Advancing dissemination and implementation research on 
strategies to identify, adapt, scale-up, and integrate evidence-based 
interventions in diverse settings and populations.
     Promoting participant engagement--including patients and 
other participants as true partners in research.
     Advancing research training and career development to 
promote a talented, diverse biomedical research workforce.
     Promoting innovation, rigor and reproducibility in 
research, partnerships, communicating research results, and other 
critical efforts as part of efficient and effective stewardship of 
public resources.
    NIDDK invites input from: The scientific research community; 
patients and caregivers; health care providers and health advocacy 
organizations; scientific and professional organizations; federal 
agencies; and other stakeholders, including interested members of the 
public.
    NIDDK seeks input on any of the broad themes above. Your comments 
could include any of the following: Research opportunities for the 
themes highlighted above; innovative strategies to advance research 
progress; the challenges to progress in these areas; emerging trends, 
advances, technologies, analytic strategies, challenges in big data 
science, and perspectives that NIDDK should consider in this planning 
process; potential approaches to gauge research progress and success. 
Please also comment on any other topic that you find relevant to the 
development of the NIDDK Institute-wide Strategic Plan.
    Organizations are strongly encouraged to submit a single response 
that reflects the views of their organization and membership as a 
whole.
    Responses to this RFI are voluntary and may be submitted 
anonymously. Please do not include any information that you do not wish 
to make public. Proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive 
information should not be included in your response. The Government 
will use the information submitted in response to this RFI at its 
discretion. Individual feedback will not be provided to any responder. 
The Government reserves the right to use any submitted information on 
public websites, in reports, in summaries of the state of the science, 
in any possible resultant solicitation(s), grant(s), or cooperative 
agreement(s), or in the development of future funding opportunity 
announcements. This RFI is for informational and planning purposes only 
and is not a solicitation for applications or an obligation on the part 
of the Government to provide support for any ideas identified in 
response to it. Please note that the Government will not pay for the 
preparation of any information submitted or for use of that 
information.
    NIDDK looks forward to your input and we hope that you will share 
this RFI with your colleagues.

    Dated: March 20, 2020.
Bruce T. Roberts,
Health Science Policy Analyst, National Institute of Diabetes and 
Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
[FR Doc. 2020-06271 Filed 3-25-20; 8:45 am]
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