- United Nations (UN)
- Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- World Health Organization (WHO) , with Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has several Clusters and Departments.
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
- Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) is the publisher of Current Contents, the Science Citation Index, Impact Factor and other databases of scholarly research information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.
The Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM) Department is in the Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals (HTP) Cluster. The EDM Department has several teams. The prequalification project is managed from within the Quality Assurance and Safety: Medicines (QSM) Team.
- European Union (EU)
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European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) will be based
in Sweden, the EU Parliament agreed in December 2003, and will have a staff
of 70. The parliament approved a € 4 million budget for the agency
in 2005, € 14 million in 2006, and €29 million in 2007. The ECDC
should be based near Stockholm's Karolinska Institute because that would
allow a laboratory-less agency access to the largest conglomerate of microbiology
laboratory capacity in Europe and the European Union's only biosafety
level (BSL)-4
lab until Holland finishes construction of their BSL-4 facility - European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) :
- European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, UK
- EMBL Grenoble, France
- EMBL Hamburg, Germany
- EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
- EMBL Monterotondo, Italy
- European Research Council (ERC) will be the area's first international funding agency for basic research in all fields, including the social sciences and humanities. At the moment, all countries in Europe have their own national funding bodies. There is also a Europe-wide 'framework' research programme that provides some grants, but this is run by the European Commission and is designed to fulfil general policies such as ensuring industrial competitiveness. Researchers have complained that this makes it hard to compete for money for more basic research. On 18 July 2005, the 22 researchers that will make up the ERC were finally announced by an independent search committee, chaired by Chris Patten, the chancellor of the University of Oxford, UK. Although the group will not really be up and running for another 2 years, this practical step will get it started. The council will meet for the first time in October 2005. The ERC has failed to achieve total independence from the commission, however. It will be financed as part of the 7th framework programme for research, which launches in 2007. Still, researchers say it will have the freedom to make decisions based on non-political motivations. The council's budget hasn't been decided yet, but is likely to be between 1 billion (US$1.2 billion) and 1.5 billion a year. The chosen council members span a wide range of fields. A full list of the members and their biographies can be found here. But whether the council will run smoothly has yet to be seen. Some anticipate problems. The relatively large size of the council may prove unwieldy. The most efficient work arises from boards with no more than a dozen members. Others are concerned that the ERC's commitment to supporting scientists on the sole criterion of excellence will make it hard for some countries to compete. And of the 22 members, only 5 are women. As for the structure of the committee and how it will actually work, that's all still up in the air. The council should start with one scientific area and then widen its grants to other subjects. Others say the council must definitely launch in all scientific areas. The ERC will have an executive agency to implement the council's suggestions. Again, it has not been decided how this will work, but scientists emphasize that it should remain independent of the commission and other political interests. The US National Science Foundation is often cited as a good model.
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), UK
- Spain
- The Spanish National Cancer Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas Carlos III : CNIO)
- United States of America (USA)
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (CSHL)
- Department of Energy (DOE) - Office of Science
- Comprehensive epidemiologic data resource (CEDR)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- Institute of Medicine (IOM)
- National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Md
- John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC) for advanced studies in the health sciences
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
- Environmental Health Information Service (EHIS)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- National Jewish Medical and Research Center
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Japan
- National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences - Keio University
