Abstract
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world. With an annual budget currently over $31 billion, the NIH awards more than 50,000 competitive grants to thousands of researchers working in the USA and around the world. The NIH is composed of 27 distinct institutes and centers, many of which are institutes for specific diseases, such as the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), just to name a few.
Highlights
Negative biology: Interventions that help prevent, treat and cure specific diseases
A strategic focus on exemplar positive phenotypes would bring to the fore research on exceptional longevity, and play, resilience, happiness and high cognitive ability
Celebrating and supporting scientific research into exemplar positive phenotypes, by designing and funding a specific institute dedicated to positive biology, would help legitimize many important areas of scientific research – from longevity science and positive psychology to research into high cognitive functioning and play
Summary
Negative biology: Interventions that help prevent, treat and cure specific diseases. The creation of the IPB would help ensure that the study of healthy ageing is able to stand on a more equal footing with research on pathology.
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