Innovation at NIH


Managing any large project is a challenge. Imagine managing a project involving 15 different groups, spread across multiple university labs across the country, dealing with massive amounts of information.

This is the challenge facing the National Human Genome Research Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health, which launched the third iteration of the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project early in October. Keep reading →


The FreeStuff website is clearly a good idea.

So good it’s in the Savings section of the Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings (CCS) volume of the US FY2013 Budget proposal; so good it ranked 96th out of 3843 entries in the 2011 President’s SAVE Award contest. Keep reading →

This is the fourth in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace.

When a patient is told he has high blood pressure at an Indian Health Service (IHS) healthcare center, the doctor no longer simply provides him a prescription for medicine, but also an individualized handout from MedlinePlus Connect. Keep reading →


This is the third in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace.

By some measures, the data captured in Visible Human Project (VHP) is from another era – it dates back some 18 years to 1994. Yet this 20th century data – now available as an iPhone and iPad app – is still innovative enough to be the cornerstone of iAnatomy, one of five winners of the 2011 National Library of Medicine (NLM) “Show Off Your Apps Challenge”. Keep reading →

NIH’s Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, pictured in front of a display of the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project.

This is the second in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace. Keep reading →

NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD.

This is the first in a series of articles examining how NIH, among other government agencies, is infusing innovation into the federal workplace. Keep reading →