NIH Partners With DOD to Create New Research Database

August 31, 2011

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is partnering with the Department of Defense (DOD) to build a central database on traumatic brain injuries. Named the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) database, the $10 million effort is designed to accelerate comparative effectiveness research on brain injury treatment and diagnosis. FITBIR will serve as a central repository for new data, link to current databases, and allow valid comparison of results across studies. Click here for more details.