National Institutes of Health - Common Fund

**Who We Are** The NIH Common Fund is a funding entity within the 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, Centers, and Offices 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. **What We Do** - We make substantial investments in time-limited, goal-driven programs in order to change significantly the trajectory of biomedical research - Our programs accelerate emerging science, enhance the biomedical research workforce, remove research roadblocks, and support high-risk high-reward science in ways that no other entity is likely or able to do - We gather diverse input from NIH leadership, staff, and the broad biomedical research community to plan our programs - We assemble consortia of multidisciplinary, innovative research who collaborate to tackle a shared, ambitious goal - We manage our programs in partnership with nominated experts from the NIH Institutes and Centers - We design our programs so that each deliverable will spur subsequent biomedical advances that otherwise would not be possible without our strategic investment