Biomedical trust fund is proposed to support basic research at NIH

Opinion: NIH must support broadly focused basic research.

The NIH undertook a daring and radical research strategy after World War II. Previously, the Institute had mostly supported medical research with a disease or public health focus. Heeding the call of visionary leaders, such as Vannevar Bush, and with the support of the US Congress, the scope of NIH-funded basic research was expanded to encompass any organism that could be used to address fundam...

Proposed NIH budget increase too small to meet research needs.

I n an era of supposed budget surpluses and debt reduction, most researchers in the field of biomedical science had anticipated that the planned doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health by the year 2003 would remain on track. However, after the State of the Union address by President Clinton, most were chagrined to realize that he proposed to increase the NIH budget by just ...

Healing the NIH-Funded Biomedical Research Enterprise

Many feel that the R01 grant system supporting biomedical research in the U.S. is broken, discouraging entry of young investigators into the system and inadequately supporting more established investigators. Here, I argue for a "person-not-project"-based scheme that would permit creative, unfettered research by new investigators, better tie ongoing research contributions to continued funding, a...

The Importance of NIH Funding to Spur Biomedical Research.

U.s.s.R. To set up fund for basic research.

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