The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The grant aims to support collaborative clinical researches that do not focus on treatment development, efficacy, or effectiveness trials but rather on the primary areas of mental health genetics, biomarker studies, and studies of mental illnesses, including those associated with HIV/AIDS. It emphasizes the need for collaboration across multiple sites to increase sample size, accelerate recruitment, or enhance sample diversity and representation, with a particular structure for large studies to have a coordinating site for centralized administration and data management.