Digestive Diseases News
Winter 2008

NCDD Nears Finish Line on Digestive Diseases Research Agenda

The National Commission on Digestive Diseases (NCDD) has posted recommendations for public comment for a 10-year national research agenda for digestive diseases.

The public has 30 days to comment on the long-term research plan, available at www2.niddk.nih.gov/AboutNIDDK/CommitteesAndWorkingGroups/NCDD, which has been in development since June 2006. Slide presentations on the recommendations from the November NCDD meeting—the last time panel members convened—are also available on the website.

Commission members will reconvene this summer to approve a final report, which will be submitted to Congress and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. A web version of the full report with extended appendices will be available on the NCDD website.

The comprehensive research plan includes 12 chapters covering a wide range of digestive diseases and an overview of the digestive system. The congressionally mandated plan will guide the NIH, along with the investigative and lay communities, in pursuing important long-term research goals for combating digestive diseases.

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NIH Publication No. 08–4552
March 2008