Biomedical Models and Resources
Current Needs and Future Opportunities
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 1998
84 pages
978-0-309-56996-5 (ISBN)
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Biomedical Models and Resources
Current Needs and Future Opportunities
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01/1998
National Academies Press
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Content
- Biomedical Models and Resources
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- 1 Introduction
- THE COMMITTEE'S CHARGE AND APPROACH
- STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT
- 2 Biomedical Model Definition
- 3 Essential and Emerging Research Fields and Technologies
- FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
- AGING
- BEHAVIOR AND NEUROBIOLOGY
- COMPLEX DISEASE
- MODEL DISCOVERY
- MATHEMATICAL MODELLING, COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS, AND SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
- EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- 4 Overriding Issues
- ISSUES WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF NCRR
- MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION
- FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE
- AVAILABILITY OF EXPERTISE AND TRAINING
- INFECTIOUS DISEASE, ANIMAL HEALTH
- ISSUES BEYOND THE SCOPE OF NCRR
- CIRCULAR A-21
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
- DATABASES AND CONFIDENTIALITY
- 5 Recommendations
- ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH DIRECTED AT IMPROVING RESEARCH ANIMALUTILITY, AVAILABILITY, HEALTH, WELFARE, AND MAINTENANCE
- LABORATORY ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE
- Diagnosis and infectious disease
- Behavior
- IMPROVED ANIMAL ACQUISITION, MAINTENANCE, PROPAGATION AND PRESERVATION
- DEVELOPMENT OF GENETIC MAPS FOR ADDITIONAL MODEL SPECIES
- INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT AND MINIATURIZATION
- CREATE A NATIONAL NETWORK OF COMPARATIVE MEDICAL EXPERTISE
- TO SUPPORT NIH RESEARCH EFFORTS ON ANIMAL MODELS, SUCH AS PHENOTYPICAND GENOTYPIC ASSESSMENT AND DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS
- TO PROMOTE MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERACTION
- CREATE A NATIONAL NETWORK OF INTEGRATIVE-BIOLOGY EXPERTISE THAT CANSERVE THE ENTIRE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY
- ACADEMIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY RELATED TO ANIMALS
- MATHEMATICAL MODELLING, COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS, AND SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
- Encouragement and Facilitation of Interdisciplinary Research
- Development and Dissemination of Appropriate Information Technologies
- Development and Maintenance of Databases, Interdisciplinary Modelling and Informatics Issues. The Si ...
- INCREASE THE COMMITMENT AND RESOURCES FOR CONSTRUCTING AND RENOVATINGANIMAL RESEARCH FACILITIES
- REINVIGORATE AND EXPAND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY
- OBTAIN PROGRAM GUIDANCE FROM THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
- USE EXISTING MECHANISMS BETTER
- FUND INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL ADVISORY GROUPS EVERY FOUR YEARS
- 6 Criteria
- References
- APPENDIXES
- APPENDIX A SURVEY INSTRUMENT
- Future Trends in Biomedical Research
- BIOMEDICAL MODELS FOR THE NEXT 5-10 YEARS
- CURRENT MODELS WAITING TO BE DEVELOPED
- IDENTIFYING NEW BIOLOGICAL MODELS
- APPENDIX B BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF AUTHORING COMMITTEE
- WORKSHOPAGENDA
- AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
- APPENDIX C Models for Biomedical Research
- What Is a Model?
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX D COMPARATIVE MEDICAL SCIENTISTS' REPORT
- A. Biotechnology
- B. Specialized Facilities
- C. Diagnostics
- D. Informatics
- E. Training
- F. Administration
- G. Personnel
- H. Facilities
