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Table 3. Short-term goals.
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 Engage “top”
university administrators at land grant institutions to provide
incentives for faculty to compete for extramural grants at agencies
other than USDA and to assist motivated scientists in preparation of
such applications for review.
Advertise
attributes of successful grant applications to NIH to motivated faculty
(see Table
2).
Meet and seek
advice from Director of Center for Scientific Review on NIH obstacles.
Identify advocates
at NIH, USDA and other agencies to assist scientists in the
implementation of strategies to enhance use of agricultural animals in
biomedical research.
Hold workshops at
NIH to inform SRAs and appropriate administrators of advantages of
agricultural animals as biomedical models.
Form committees to
engage organizers of scientific meetings to promote/showcase
agricultural animals, primate and rodent
models addressing high priority human health problems (e.g., To
promote agricultural species as important comparative animal models, a
central fund from all land grant institutions could be created and used
to partially sponsor the aforementioned special animal models’ symposia
at national meetings.).
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