Science & Research

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Clinical Trials and Human Subject Protection

Guidances, Information Sheets, Notices and more.

About Science & Research at FDA

An overview of science and research projects across the various components of FDA.

Field Science and Laboratories

ORA Laboratory Profiles, Laboratory Manual, Laboratory Information Bulletins, Policy for consumer product tests, training laboratory staff, report writing, private laboratory report reviews, and testimony.

FDA STEM Education, Engagement, and Outreach

FDA STEM activities support FDA efforts to continue attracting and developing highly skilled scientists to protect public health with a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Science and Research Special Topics

Women's health, pediatrics, the Critical Path Initiative, nanotechnology, clinical trials, and peer reviews of scientific information.

Bioinformatics Tools

Tools for analyzing and integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics datasets.

Data Mining at FDA

Information on data mining initiatives at FDA.

Health Informatics at FDA

Overview of FDA’s health informatics initiatives to optimize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in public health and biomedicine.

Meetings, Conferences, and Workshops

FDA science-related gatherings, including the Science Forum, Science Writers Symposium, and public science meetings.

FDA Technology Transfer Program

Information to help FDA and potential collaborators transfer federal technology to the commercial marketplace.

Funding for Rare Diseases and Pediatric Device Consortia

FDA's role in providing incentives for sponsors to develop products for rare diseases.

Office of the Chief Scientist

The Office of the Chief Scientist provides strategic leadership, coordination, and expertise, supporting scientific excellence, innovation and capacity to achieve FDA's public health mission.

National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)

The National Center for Toxicological Research conducts scientific research to generate data for FDA decision making, and develops and supports innovative tools and approaches that FDA uses to protect and promote public health.

Oncology Center of Excellence

The Oncology Center of Excellence will help expedite the development of oncology and hematology medical products and support an integrated approach in the clinical evaluation of drugs, biologics, and devices for the treatment of cancer.

Drugs

Research by FDA Staff to evaluate and enhance the efficacy, safety, and quality of drug products.

Medical Devices

Laboratory and field research in the areas of physical, life, and engineering sciences as well as epidemiological research in postmarket device safety

Food

Biotechnology, laboratory methods and publications, research strategic plan, and research areas such as risk assessment and consumer behavior.

Biologics

Research by FDA staff to evaluate and enhance the safety of biologic products.

Toxicological Research

Bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational toxicology, food protection, imaging, and nanotechnology.

Animal & Veterinary

Research activities that support the needs of FDA’s animal health regulators, on issues including pre-market drug review, compliance, post-approval monitoring, and animal feed safety.

Minority Health and Health Equity

Office of Minority Health Research and Collaboration Program works with FDA centers and external partners to support research studies about minority health and health disparities.

Women's Health

Funding available to researchers, pregnancy intiatives, Outcomes of Science Program efforts.

Tobacco Products

Research priorities, funded research, meetings and conferences.

Nanotechnology Programs at FDA

FDA staff are involved in many activities intended to build regulatory science knowledge, facilitate collaborations and partnerships with stakeholders, and establish a flexible, product-focused, science-based approach to regulation of products that involve nanomaterials or applications of nanotechnology.

Field Science - Laboratory Manual

The Laboratory Manual is a reference manual for FDA personnel. It provides FDA personnel with information on internal procedures to be used as an agency policy for testing consumer products, training of laboratory staff, report writing, safety, research, review of private laboratory reports and court testimony.

Advancing Regulatory Science

FDA's Advancing Regulatory Science Initiative builds on the achievements of existing Agency programs, like the Critical Path Initiative's groundbreaking efforts to transform the way medical products are developed, evaluated, and manufactured.