How can a foreign institution or researcher identify potential collaborators?
The most important consideration is developing a collegial relationship with other investigators or institutions that have the requisite scientific experience and skills, and that may have an interest in your research. Tools to assist in finding potential collaborators include: • Attend professional conferences or associations, especially those that focus on the particular subject area of interest; • Search the PubMed database to identify published research on the particular topic of interest to the foreign institution, and the researchers who have authored such research (PubMed is a Web-accessible tool for searching peer-reviewed professional journals); • Search the RCDC Database via the RePORT query tool to help identify researchers (and institutions) who currently are NIH grant recipients in the area of interest (and further searches to specifically identify successful NCCAM grant recipients in the research area of interest). (RePORT is a Web-accessible search tool that allows the p
