The NIH and Numbers: A Vital Concern's Concern
- 30 May 1985
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 312 (22) , 1450-1452
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198505303122210
Abstract
Congress approved the funding of 6500 new research grants in 1985, but the Office of Management and Budget proposed to stretch the process out and keep the number of new grants this year at its present level. A compromise figure is now being discussed, but in the context of these actions we are hearing that the National Institutes of Health, our vital 40-year-old biomedical research concern, is in a crisis. The NIH's present situation has been described as slow strangulation. Without the anticipated increase of nearly 20 per cent next year from the present 5493 grants (the number funded in . . .Keywords
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