Find NIH Funding Information More Quickly and Easily with RCDC’s New Look and Feel

March 20, 2025

NIH recently launched several enhancements to allow the public to more easily and quickly find funding information for various NIH research areas. The new look and feel of the NIH Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) Categorical Spending webpage adds to NIH’s long-standing efforts to enhance transparency and accountability into NIH funding decisions and the research areas NIH supports.

The NIH SABV Policy: E-learning Opportunities and a Symposium Provide Guidance and Inspiration

April 12, 2021

Interest in sex and gender in research—and resources to help investigators—is growing. In the 5 years since NIH enacted its pioneering Policy on Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) (see our progress report here), there has been a lot of activity, including increased attention on sex differences and influences and many questions and requests for assistance. I’m pleased to announce the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) has issued two new courses, Sex as a Biological Variable: A Primer and Bench to Bedside: Integrating Sex and Gender to Improve Human Health, to our suite of free e-learning offerings.

RCDeCade: 10 Years and Still Counting

June 12, 2018

Remember hearing those stories about how your grand-PIs had to walk five miles, in the snow, uphill, with no shoes just to learn how NIH spent its research budget? Well, believe it or not, but that was just ten years ago. Today, we have the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) webtool to do this in a blink of an eye. Now, following the official release of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 data and updated estimates for FYs 2018 and 2019 last month, we wanted to celebrate a successful decade of service.