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FDA invites developers to showcase
their cutting-edge technologies to FDA scientists in
FDA Webinar Series on Alternative Methods

 
 

 
Read about the activities FDA scientists are undertaking to spur the development of new regulatory approaches that can help improve predictivity--and potentially replace, reduce and/or refine animal testing.
 
 
 

 

 

FDA's mission is to protect and advance public health by helping to speed innovations that provide our nation with safe and effective medical products and that keep our food safe. The Agency achieves this by applying the latest technology and science-based standards to the regulatory challenges presented by drugs, biologics (vaccines, blood products, cell and gene therapy products, and tissues), medical devices, food additives, and, since 2009, tobacco. > Read more

Research at FDA

• Office of the Chief Scientist
  Supports FDA's capacity to achieve its mission through managing extra- and intramural research funding programs such as the Advancing Regulatory Science and Innovation Broad Agency Announcement and the Centers of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation. It also manages cross-agency scientific working groups that address scientific and technological advances affecting FDA-regulated products. 

• Animal and Veterinary
  Research Areas, Publications 

• Biologics
  Research by FDA Staff to Evaluate and Enhance the Safety of Biologic Products

• Drugs
  Research by FDA Staff to Evaluate and Enhance the Efficacy, Safety, and Quality of Drug Products

• Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  Biotechnology, laboratory methods and publications, research strategic plan, and research areas such as risk assessment and consumer behavior.

• Medical Devices
  Applied Mechanics, Biology Chemistry and Materials Science, Biomedical Physics, Imaging Diagnostics and Software Reliability.

• Tobacco Products
  Research Priorities, Funded Research, Meetings and Conferences

• Toxicological Research
  Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computational Toxicology, Food Protection, Imaging, Nanotechnology

• Women's Health Research
  Funding available to researchers, Pregnancy initiatives, Outcomes of Science Program efforts

• Minority Health Research
  Funds research on medical conditions that disproportionately affect minorities

Resources For You

• Science Board to the Food and Drug Administration
• FDA-NIH Joint Leadership Council Charter
• Scientific Publications by FDA Staff
• Advancing Regulatory Science for Public Health (Printer-Friendly) (PDF - 731 KB)

Spotlight

• Meet the Faces behind FDA Science
• Healthy Innovation, Safer Families: FDA's 2018 Strategic Policy Roadmap (PDF - 276 KB)
• HHS Strategic Plan 2018-2022
• Don't miss the next FDA Grand Rounds

Meetings, Workshops

• CERSI Workshops

Blogs, Webcasts

• FDA's Monthly Grand Rounds Webcast
• FDA Voices: A collection of perspectives into the work FDA does

Research Initiatives

• Medical Countermeasures Initiative (MCMi)
• Advancing Regulatory Science
• Centers of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI)
• FDA's Predictive Toxicology Roadmap