For over 50 years, the mission of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has been to conduct and support basic and applied
research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and
allergic diseases with the ultimate goal of improving the health of individuals
in the United States and around the world. As part of its mission to foster
biomedical discovery and to reduce the burden of human disease, NIAID is
committed to encouraging the accelerated translation of biomedical discoveries
into effective clinical care and public health practice throughout the world. In
pursuit of this goal and its disease-specific scientific objectives, NIAID seeks
to broaden