Word: nih
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawrence Bogorad, professor of Biology, said the cut will "affect the way in which people can be trained in science," since many Ph.D. candidates receive critical training from NIH-funded research projects. He emphasized that "we're not likely to be affected in terms of simply supporting them...
...loss is due to a cut in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and the effect of inflation...
...NIH, which last year reduced its grants by 10 per cent, administers health research and basic science projects across the nation. It supplies approximately two-thirds of the funds of Harvard's Institute of Public Health and the Medical School...
...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare directed the NIH to make the cuts because of the heavy drain of the Vietnam war on Federal resources and accompanying inflationary pressures...
...Although NIH usually sets the amount of grants for each project individually, HEW officials have-ordered an across-the-board five percent cut in continuing projects and a ten percent one for new projects. Inflation has increased the expense of research about ten percent over last year...