Welcome to the NIH Common Fund
Bold science, catalyzing discoveries
What is the NIH Common Fund?
Our Mission
The NIH Common Fund is a funding entity within NIH that supports bold scientific programs that catalyze discovery across all biomedical and behavioral research. These programs create a space where investigators and multiple NIH Institutes and Centers collaborate on innovative research expected to address high priority challenges for the NIH as a whole and make a broader impact in the scientific community.
Our Mission
Science Highlights
ComPASS Team Publishes Findings from Listening Sessions That Shaped Program
To inform the development of the NIH Common Fund Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) program, NIH held a series of virt
The Illuminating the Druggable Genome program developed resources to discover new drug targets
The National Institutes of Health’s Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) program ge
New Technique Takes Flight as Scientists Find a Novel Approach to Gene Therapy
A High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program awardee reports the discovery of a new method to insert long DNA sequences safely into human cells, with inspiration from an unlikely source: birds.
Researchers Break New Ground Treating Gut Inflammation with Designer Bacteria
Trillions of microbes live in our gut, helping to digest food, supporting the immune system, and fighting disease-causing bacteria.
New isolation method yields greater capture of small biological particles outside cells
The new isolation process is conducted on a microscopic device...
Researchers Expand Resource to Map Communication Between Cells
Providing new information about interactions between exRNA and certain proteins that carry exRNA in biofluids known as RNA binding proteins (RBPs)...
