Looking for a NIH program official in your research area?

For years, researchers have used the Matchmaker feature in NIH RePORTER to identify NIH-funded projects similar to their supplied abstracts, research bios, or other scientific text. Matchmaker was recently enhanced to make it just as easy to identify NIH program officials whose portfolios include projects in your research area.

After entering your scientific text (up to 15,000 characters), Matchmaker will analyze the key terms and concepts to identify up to 500 similar projects. Those projects will continue to show on the “Projects” tab with handy charts to visualize the results and quickly filter identified projects by “Institute/Center,” “Activity Code,” and “Study Section.” A new “Program Official” tab identifies the program officials associated with the matched projects and includes its own filters for “Institute/Center” and “Activity Code.”

From the list of program officials, you are one click away from their contact information and matched projects in their portfolios. Never before has it been so easy to answer the question “Who at NIH can I talk to about my research?”