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In recent years, the United States Congress has provided more than $1.5 billion per year in taxpayer money to the NINDS to pursue its mission: to reduce the burden of neurological disease through biomedical research. The challenge for the NINDS is to determine:

• How best to invest in training programs, research infrastructure, basic research, disease-related research, and clinical trials, both intramurally and extramurally
• How to seize immediate opportunities while nurturing the long-term advancement of neuroscience
• How to encourage research in opportune areas while also allowing for unexpected discoveries

The NINDS is launching a strategic planning process to provide guidance on these issues. In the process, the NINDS will systematically review opportunities for basic, translational, clinical, and disease-focused research. The NINDS will invite public input at each stage of planning. The first step is to develop a blue sky vision for neuroscience and neurology, or goals to which the NINDS should aspire over the next fifteen years.

Last updated April 29, 2008