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in February, NIH NCRR issues RFA for data driven profiles of scientists in conjunction with its CTSA program. By April, a seven team consortium (Cornell, Weill Cornell Medical College, Indiana University, Washington University at St. Louis, Ponce Medical School in Puerto Rico, The Scripps Research Institute, and the University of Florida), Mike Conlon, of UF, principal investigator responded to the RFA with the idea of VIVO, a semantic web application for data driven profiles, using ontologies to represent ideas related to scholarship. The team was successful and the award was made September 1, 2009. In December of 2009, a "fly in" was held in Washington DC where many members of the VIVO team met each other for the first time. The corresponding NIH project, eagle-i, a nine school consortium led by Lee Nadler of Harvard, and including Melissa Haendel as ontologist was also at the fly-in and the VIVO and eagle-i teams jointly planned their efforts.
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