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Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Therapeutics Working Group
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, FDA, ASPR
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NIAID
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Develop master protocols to support the ACTIV Research; Prioritize putative therapeutics candidates for entry into trials
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Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP)
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Other
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FDA
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OD/OSP, NIA, NIDDK, NIAMS, NINDS, NIMH
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Public-private partnership between the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), multiple biopharmaceutical companies and multiple non-profit organizations, and managed by the Foundation for NIH (FNIH), to transform the current model for developing new diagnostics and treatments by jointly identifying and validating promising biological targets for therapeutics.
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Accelerating Medicines Partnership Schizophrenia (AMP SCZ)
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Research Initiative
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FDA
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NIMH
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The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), together with National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and public and private partners, has launched the Accelerating Medicines Partnership - Schizophrenia (AMP SCZ) as the first neuropsychiatric project within the AMP program. The public-private partnership will tackle the critical need for more effective treatments for people with schizophrenia.
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AccessGUDID
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Resource Development
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FDA, GDM
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NLM
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The Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) contains key device identification information submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about medical devices that have Unique Device Identifiers (UDI). The National Library of Medicine (NLM), in collaboration with the FDA, has created the AccessGUDID portal to make device identification information in the GUDID available for everyone, including patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, hospitals, and industry.
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ACL Advisory Council on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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ACL, ACF, SAMHSA, CDC, HRSA, ASPE, ONC
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NIA
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The mission of the Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (SGRG) is to identify, promote, coordinate and disseminate information, resources, and best practices to help grandparents and older relative caregivers of children meet the health, educational, nutritional, and other needs of the children in their care, while maintaining their own physical, mental, and emotional well-being. As part of this vision, all recommendations will consider the needs of members of Native American tribes and families affected by the opioid crisis.
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Action for Health in Diabetes Extension (Look AHEAD-E)
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Research Initiative
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CDC, IHS
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NIDDK, NIA
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The Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD) is a randomized trial comparing the effects of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention (ILI) focused on weight loss achieved through healthy eating and increased physical activity versus a control condition of Diabetes Support and Education (DSE) in overweight and obese individuals with type 2 diabetes. The Look AHEAD Extension (Look AHEAD-E) will examine whether ILI, provided for 10 years during mid-life, has enduring benefits that persist beyond the period of the intervention for older individuals with diabetes.
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) Studies
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Research Initiative
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CDC
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NIAID, NICHD, NINDS
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This is a joint effort to find the cause of AFM by developing research initiatives as well as working group activities.
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) Workshop Planning Committee
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Meeting/ Workshop
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CDC
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NICHD, NIAID, NINDS
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This workshop (planned for May 2020) will bring together research scientists, clinicians, patient advocacy groups, and representatives from relevant organizations to discuss the state-of-the-science for AFM and GBS. The meeting will highlight similarities between the two diseases and facilitate cross-pollination of ideas to advance research, diagnostics, and therapy development for both. Particularly for NICHD, the gaps identified for diagnosis, treatment and management of AFM and it’s consequences in children would inform potential development of future initiatives to address these.
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Adjuvant Working Group
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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BARDA, FDA
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NIAID, NCI
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Staff from all National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Divisions, program staff from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and regulatory staff from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exchange information about ongoing programs related to novel adjuvants for infectious disease vaccines, identify high priority research areas (and gap areas), and discuss ideas to accelerate progress in adjuvant research through better access to information and resources.
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Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
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Research Initiative
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CDC
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NIDA, NCI, NIAAA, NICHD, NIMH, NIMHD, NINDS, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR
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The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) project, a landmark longitudinal study of brain development and child health, will increase our understanding of how diverse experiences during adolescence interact with changing biology to influence brain, cognitive, and social/emotional development of youth. In partnership with area public and private schools, researchers at twenty-one research sites across the country will recruit 10,000 children at age 9-10 from diverse races and ethnicities, education and income levels, and living environments and follow them through their teens and into early adulthood. Throughout this period, researchers will assess each child’s physical and mental health, substance use, sleep patterns, genetics, childhood experiences, and cultural/environmental influences, as well as track brain and cognitive development with non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging scans at regular intervals. To enrich the value of the study, ABCD will release anonymized data annually to the research community in an open science model to allow scientists from all over the world to conduct analyses and pool resources to rapidly expand the types of scientific questions that can be answered. The actionable information coming out of this study will enable education, substance use prevention, and other health promotion policies to ensure the wellbeing and success of the Nation’s children.
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