About Science & Research at FDA
An overview of science and research projects across the various components of FDA.
Field Science and Laboratories
ORA Laboratory Profiles, Laboratory Manual, Laboratory Information Bulletins, Policy for consumer product tests, training laboratory staff, report writing, private laboratory report reviews, and testimony.
FDA Science Jobs and Scientific Professional Development
Highlights FDA science job opportunities and FDA’s scientific professional development culture, including continuing education, fellowships, scientific achievement awards, scientific collaborations, and promotional mechanisms.
Science and Research Special Topics
Women’s health, pediatrics, the Critical Path Initiative, nanotechnology, clinical trials, and peer reviews of scientific information.
Bioinformatics Tools
Tools for analyzing and integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics datasets.
Data Mining at FDA
Information on data mining initiatives at FDA.
Health Informatics at FDA
Overview of FDA’s health informatics initiatives to optimize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in public health and biomedicine.
Meetings, Conferences, and Workshops
FDA science-related gatherings, including the Science Forum, Science Writers Symposium, and public science meetings.
Drugs
Research by FDA Staff to evaluate and enhance the efficacy, safety, and quality of drug products.
Medical Devices
Laboratory and field research in the areas of physical, life, and engineering sciences as well as epidemiological research in postmarket device safety
Food
Biotechnology, laboratory methods and publications, research strategic plan, and research areas such as risk assessment and consumer behavior.
Biologics
Research by FDA staff to evaluate and enhance the safety of biologic products.
Toxicological Research
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational toxicology, food protection, imaging, and nanotechnology.
Animal & Veterinary
Research activities that support the needs of FDA’s animal health regulators, on issues including pre-market drug review, compliance, post-approval monitoring, and animal feed safety.
Minority Health
Office of Minority Health Research and Collaboration Program works with FDA centers and external partners to support research studies about minority health and health disparities.
Women’s Health
Funding available to researchers, pregnancy intiatives, Outcomes of Science Program efforts.
Tobacco Products
Research priorities, funded research, meetings and conferences.
Nanotechnology Programs at FDA
FDA staff are involved in many activities intended to build regulatory science knowledge, facilitate collaborations and partnerships with stakeholders, and establish a flexible, product-focused, science-based approach to regulation of products that involve nanomaterials or applications of nanotechnology.
Field Science – Laboratory Manual
The Laboratory Manual is a reference manual for FDA personnel. It provides FDA personnel with information on internal procedures to be used as an agency policy for testing consumer products, training of laboratory staff, report writing, safety, research, review of private laboratory reports and court testimony.
Advancing Regulatory Science
FDA’s Advancing Regulatory Science Initiative builds on the achievements of existing Agency programs, like the Critical Path Initiative’s groundbreaking efforts to transform the way medical products are developed, evaluated, and manufactured.