Drug Discovery, Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development

这种跨部门资金转移是NIH、NSF和AID之间协议的一部分，该协议将共同资助三个为期五年的项目，每个项目都有三个相互交织的组成部分：药物发现、生物多样性保护和经济发展。每个获资助的项目都将设法在发展中地区进行生物调查，目的是同时清点生物多样性，筛选该多样性的适当成分用于天然药物产品，并将这项努力的结果转化为东道国居民的经济潜力。NIH将为这三个机构管理这个合作研究项目，因此有必要进行机构间的转移。

This interagency transfer of funds is part of an agreement between NIH, NSF and AID to jointly fund three projects for five years, each with three interwoven components: drug discovery, biodiversity conservation and economic development. Each funded project will seek to make biotic surveys in developing areas with the purpose of simultaneously inventorying biological diversity, screening suitable elements of that diversity for natural pharmaceutical products and translating the results of this effort into economic potential for the inhabitants of the host areas. NIH will administer this cooperative research program for the three agencies, thus necessitating this interagency transfer.