INTRAMURAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intramural mean? 

• INTRAMURAL (adjective)
  The adjective INTRAMURAL has 1 sense:

1. carried on within the bounds of an institution or community

  Familiarity information: INTRAMURAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTRAMURAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carried on within the bounds of an institution or community

Context example:

most of the students participated actively in the college's intramural sports program

Similar:

internal; intragroup (occurring within an institution or community)

Antonym:

extramural (carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community)

 Context examples 

Investigators are funded primarily by the NCI for their individual research projects (RO1s) while the National Institute for Human Genome Research contributes an intramural component.

(International Consortium on Prostate Cancer Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)

A report by the Ad Hoc Working Group of the National Cancer Advisory Board presented on June 9, 1995, outlining, in detail, the state of the intramural research program of the National Cancer Institute.

(Bishop-Calabresi Report, NCI Thesaurus)

The Branch plans and conducts intramural research aimed at identifying new tools for the early detection of cancers and developing cancer intervention agents.

(Biomarkers and Prevention Research Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

Intramural and collaborative interdisciplinary studies are conducted on the distribution, causes, and natural history of cancer, and the means for its prevention.

(Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)

The NCI Board of Scientific Counselors comprised of leading scientists and members of the lay community, advises the Directors of the Intramural Division of the NCI and the Director and Deputy Director, NCI, on the matters concerning scientific program policy and the progress and future direction of research programs of each Division, including the evaluation of performance and productivity of each Division and staff scientists through periodic site visits to intramural laboratories, and evaluation and advice on the course of each Division's programs.

(Board of Scientific Counselors, NCI, NCI Thesaurus)

They also carry out programs of education in biometric and epidemiologic principles and methods for the vision research community as well as providing biometric and epidemiologic assistance to National Eye Institute intramural and extramural staff and to vision research workers elsewhere.

(Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, NCI Thesaurus)

Their members include leaders in laboratory, clinical, and population-based research drawn from the extramural and intramural research community, staff of the NIH and other government agencies, members of professional organizations, and interested consumers and patient advocates.

(Director's Working Group, NCI Thesaurus)

The Committee may consider the reports of the various review groups as informational, advisory, or as recommendations, and shall provide the NCI with assistance in identifying opportunities to be pursued within the areas of cancer research that cut across the intramural and extramural programs.

(Advisory Committee to the Director, NCI, NCI Thesaurus)

This division (1) plans, directs, coordinates and evaluates the Institute's intramural programs in basic science relating to cellular, molecular, genetic, biochemical and immunological mechanisms relevant to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of cancer; (2) establishes program priorities, allocates resources, integrates the projects of the various laboratories, evaluates program effectiveness and represents the division in management and scientific decision-making meetings within the Institute; (3) identifies the need for and establishes new intramural research activities; (4) supports training and research opportunities in the basic sciences for young investigators; (5) supports the translational research by integrating and coordinating divisional research activities with other NCI divisions, with the institutes, centers and divisions within the NIH as well as with the private sector and the academic research community.

(Division of Basic Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)