NCRR Announces 2009-2013 Strategic Plan

September 16, 2008 – The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) has formally unveiled its 2009-2013 Strategic Plan. NCRR Director Barbara Alving, MD, announced the final strategic plan at a meeting of the National Advisory Research Resources Council.

In April, ASH submitted comments in response to the draft strategic plan. ASH's comments offered support for NCRR's draft and thanked the Center for incorporating many of the suggestions from the Society's 2007 comments.

The final Strategic Plan announced by NCCR incorporates many of ASH's earlier comments and suggestions to continue to support the research and development of animal models, novel and high-end biomedical technologies, informatics tools, and to facilitate dissemination of these models and technologies to the broad scientific community. Also highlighted in the plan is the critical need to build the research workforce and encourage training programs that support multi-disciplinary, team-based approaches, an area that ASH had recommended.