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"Succeed" newsletter published by Grants.gov
Grants.gov provides information about its website quarterly through the "Succeed" newsletter, a guide to the latest updates, handy tips and useful articles on how to best use Grants.gov.

Association of University Centers on Disabilities
The Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), located in Silver Spring, MD, promotes and supports a national network of interdisciplinary centers on disabilities. The members of AUCD represent every U.S. state and territory and include 64 University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (UCEDD), 35 Interdisciplinary Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Programs and 20 Developmental Disabilities Research Centers (DDRC). Together, these centers advance policy and practice through research, education and services for and with individuals with developmental and other disabilities, their families and communities.

Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)
BIRN is a shared biomedical IT infrastructure to hasten the derivation of new understanding and treatment of disease through the use of distributed knowledge. Drawing upon the expertise and technologies available at numerous institutions, the Biomedical Informatics. Research Network (BIRN) is building an infrastructure of networked high-performance computers, data integration standards, and other emerging technologies, to pave the way for medical researchers to transform the treatment of disease

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
The mission of the NICHD is to ensure that every person is born healthy and wanted, that women suffer no harmful effects from reproductive processes, and that all children have the chance to achieve their full potential for healthy and productive lives, free from disease or disability, and to ensure the health, productivity, independence, and well-being of all people through optimal rehabilitation.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people?s health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.

National Institutes of Health Grants and Funding Opportunities
Grants news, applications, grants policy, NIH Guide, award data, eRA Commons, research training, research contracts, loan repayment programs, Small Business Research Programs

NICHD Autism Website
Information about autism research at NICHD, including research projects, publications, news releases and other activities related to autism and similar disorders.

NICHD Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Branch (MRDD)
The MRDD Branch of NICHD sponsors research and research training aimed at preventing and ameliorating mental retardation and related developmental disabilities.

Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network
The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) was created to facilitate collaboration among experts in many different types of rare diseases. Our goal is to contribute to the research and treatment of rare diseases by working together to identify biomarkers for disease risk, disease severity and activity, and clinical outcome, while also encouraging development of new approaches to diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Seven DDRC members participate in the RDCRN.

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