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Faust's testimony is part of a Harvard-led effort by a consortium of research universities to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH...
According to information from the NIH Web site, the average age of a researcher receiving his first R01 grant—NIH's funding mechanism for single projects that accounts for the majority of its grants to Harvard—has risen by nearly 25 percent since...
Harvard received $329 million in grants from the NIH last year, making it far and away the University's largest source of federal research dollars...
...said Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations. “But I think the budget overall for higher education is a mixed bag.” Casey cited the zero-increase in funding for the National Institute of Health (NIH)—which will mean a decrease after adjusting for inflation—as evidence that the budget is “an uneven overall package in terms of supporting higher education and its research purposes.” Harvard currently receives about $400 million in federal funding annually, the vast majority...
...factor in determining whether HIV-positive pregnant women pass on the infection to their unborn children: women with lower viral loads have a smaller chance of infecting their babies. "The phenomenon of lower virus, less chance of transmission is well known," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "The critical issue that gets people at the WHO, CDC and myself a little concerned is making the statement that there is essentially no risk of getting infected if you are having sex with a partner who is HIV-positive and on ARVs...