Science & Research

Science & Research

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.


Bioinformatics Tools

Tools for analyzing and integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics datasets.

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.


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.