SBIR-STTR Award

Complete Title Analytical Tools and Approaches for Multidimensional Scholarly Research Assessmentand Decision Support in the Biomedical Enterprise The long term goal of this project is to create a knowledge platform that addresses the need of funding organizations to justify the value of their research programs to stakeholders This platform will i allow for quantitative descriptions and analysis of the research conducted by the collaboration network underlying the development of drugs devices and diagnost ics ii facilitate strategic communication of the societal value of such research to oversight bodies and policy makers and iii provide analytical tools to managers of large and small research portfolios Thus we will build upon our prior experience to establish the Enhanced Research Network Informatics Exploration ERNIE platform ERNIE will contain linked data in multiple dimensions as well as rigorous methods to access and analyze them We will conduct case studies on selected drugs devices and diagnostics and benchmark them We will particularly highlight the role of NIH funding as we identify influential events in these case studies Phase I deliverables are an accessible knowledge platform for strategic communications and portfolio analysis a library of case studies and an evaluation of progress made

NIHthrough NIDAseeks advanced tools that could be broadly used by the life science community and generate results that would be understood by non scientists as well as professional evaluatorsIn Phase Ithe Contractor completed initial development of ERNIEan accessible big data platform integrating multiple data sources and associated methods for quantitative description of research that would facilitate strategic communications of societal value of research as well as analytical tools and reports for research portfolio managersAutomated processes were put in place to refresh datacurate itand store it in a documented schemaData in the repository were benchmarked against previously published work through case studiesTheselargely relevant to substance abusewere conducted to demonstrate feasibility and illustrate the contributions of NIH funded researchThis Phase II project is todevelop a production quality resource that williprovide custom evaluation data to clients as a digital serviceandiiprovide analytical services as an enhancement option to custom data