NIH MICAD initiative and guest author program opportunities

In 2003, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research initiatives with a vision to transform the nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of scientific discoveries from the bench to the bedside (http://nihroadmap. nih.gov). To accelerate expansion of the database to include all published in vivo molecular imaging and contrast agents, the MICAD program has recently implemented a procedure for members of the imaging community to write and submit entries (chapters) for publication in the database as guest authors.