NIAMS faculty lead the way in innovative research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases.

NIAMS-funded investigators are encouraged to use the NIH/NIAMS tools and templates when developing their study documents.

he Resource–based Centers (P30) provide critical research infrastructure, shared facilities, services, and resources to groups of investigators, with the broad overall goal of accelerating, enriching, and enhancing the effectiveness of ongoing basic, translational, and clinical research and promoting new research within the NIAMS mission. The components include one or more Resource Cores and an Administrative Core that includes an Enrichment Program.

The Core Centers for Clinical Research (CCCR) (P30) provides avenues to advance the methodological sciences that support clinical research within and across the NIAMS’ portfolio of diseases. They address existing and future research needs in musculoskeletal, rheumatologic, and skin diseases by fostering the development, implementation, and inclusion of novel data, analytical methods, metrics, and outcome measures into clinical research at the institutional, local, and national level.

The Centers of Research Translation (CORT) (P50) Program fosters research that is translational in nature, directed at elucidating the relevance of basic research to human disease in an area within the NIAMS mission.