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...Pioneer and New Innovator grants, which fund $138 million in research for the 47 laureates, are a part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research initiative created in 2004 to support unconventional and innovative projects...
...It’s really an incredible honor...and a wonderful thing that the NIH is doing to support young people,” said Amy J. Wagers, who works with stem cells at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center. “It’s a tough time in the funding of biological sciences and particularly difficult for those of us trying to get careers off the ground. This is really transformative in new labs like mine...
...Washington is in favor of more cancer. But attempts to expand the NIH's budget or get separate funding from Congress have been stymied by internecine fighting among cancer groups. Armstrong tells of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden's frustration at being besieged by cancer-site advocates--lung, breast, blood--and those for other terrible diseases, each unwilling to let dollars pass to another without an argument. "Within that group, you have a lot of fighting, hogging, people trying to elbow each other out," says Armstrong. The legislators' message to these groups is simple: Get your acts together...
Even with a new President inclined to increase spending, throwing money at the problem isn't the answer. "There is no strategic plan," says former Senator Bill Frist, a heart and lung surgeon before he entered politics. Frist voted to double NIH funds in 1998 but wouldn't recommend it again without a better road map. There are numerous federal agencies that cover cancer, for instance, and less than complete coordination among them...
...strategy is often compared to that of the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atom bomb, or the Apollo program, which put astronauts on the moon. Some worry that it oversimplifies things. "This isn't an engineering problem," says the NIH's Harris. "It's a problem in which we know only parts of the solution...