SIGNIFICANT ITEMS (SIs) FY 2008 House Appropriations Committee Report 110-231 and FY 2008 Senate Appropriations Committee Report 110-107 Table of Contents National Institutes of Health –Institutes and Centers National Cancer Institute (NCI) ...................................................................................... 1 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).........................................................35 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) ....................................58 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)..................61 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)...................................96 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) ......................................126 National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)..............................................152 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) .........................155 National Eye Institute (NEI) ...........................................................................................182 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) ......................................184 National Institute of Aging (NIA) ...................................................................................194 National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)..........204 National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) ...........216 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)...................................................................228 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) .....................................................................243 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) ....................................262 National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) .............................................................267 National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) .................................................271 National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) ......................274 National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)...........................................................276 National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) ........................281 Fogarty International Center (FIC)..................................................................................289 National Library of Medicine (NLM)..............................................................................293 Office of the Director (OD) .............................................................................................299 Items of Interest AAPI Behavioral Research..............................................................................................248 ACCORD Trial ..................................................................................................................47 Acute Liver Failure ......................................................................................................71,77 Adolescent Brain Development .......................................................................................250 Adolescent Depression and Suicide.................................................................................228 Advanced Imaging Technology.........................................................................................48 Adverse Pregnancy Outcome...........................................................................................167 Age-Related Macular Degeneration ................................................................................182 i Alaska Natives .................................................................................................................262 Alpha -1 Antitrypsin Deficiency ................................................................................42,184 Alzheimer’s Disease ..........................................................................................111,195,232 Amyloidosis ....................................................................................................................312 Anaphylaxis .............................................................................................................136,141 Animal Models of Diabetes ...............................................................................................78 Animal Models of Plasticity ............................................................................................216 Antibacterial Therapy .....................................................................................................330 Antibiotic Resistance .......................................................................................................132 Antiviral Drug Resistance.........................................................................................126,137 Artificial Pancreas............................................................................................................275 Assisted Reproductive Technology .................................................................................163 Asthma ...............................................................................................................127,138,188 Atopic Dermatitis and Asthma/Allergic Diseases ...........................................................138 Autism .............................................................................................................................305 Autism [Thimerasol Exposure]........................................................................................190 Basic Behavioral Science.................................................................................................233 Behavioral Research .................................................................................................153,191 Beta Cell Biology...............................................................................................................79 Beta Cell Research.............................................................................................................69 Biocontainment Labs .......................................................................................................139 Biology of Aging .............................................................................................................197 Bleeding and Clotting Disorders........................................................................................44 Blood Cancers....................................................................................................................16 Bone Marrow Failure Disease ...............................................................................45,49,185 Bone Strength ...........................................................................................................193,197 Bowel Incontinence ...........................................................................................................65 Brain Tumors .....................................................................................................................18 Brain Imaging .................................................................................................................250 Breast Cancer.....................................................................................................................19 Bridging the Sciences ............................................................................................324,331 Burdent of Skin Diseases ..............................................................................................204 Cancer Centers ..................................................................................................................13 Cancer Clinical Trials ........................................................................................................21 Cancer Metastasis to Bone..............................................................................................1,22 Cancer in Native Hawaiians .............................................................................................21 Cardiovascular Disease and Women ................................................................................36 Cellular therapies ..............................................................................................................76 Centers of Excellence for Physician Information ..........................................................247 CETT Program.................................................................................................................327 Charcot-Marie-Tooth [CMT]......................................................................................96,112 Chromosome Abnormalities ............................................................................................332 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome [CFS] ...................................................................................328 Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy [CIDP]......................................112 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)...........................................................289 ii Class B Animal Dealers ..................................................................................................333 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) ...............................................278,300 Clinical Islet