Word: nih
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...charting new areas. Go too far, step out of bounds, and you're in science fiction. So you have to be careful. But you want to be as close to the edge as possible." When he first proposed manipulating mouse genes to help model disease, the nih gatekeepers thought he was over the line. "Not worthy of pursuit," they said of his grant proposals. Happily, Capecchi ignored them...
...focus of biological research in the U.S. - on anthrax and plague instead of, say, drug-resistant tuberculosis or the hepatitis viruses - which may be doing the country a disservice. In a 2005 open letter, organized by Richard H. Ebright, a Rutgers University chemistry professor, 758 American microbiologists complained that NIH priorities favoring research of "high bio-defense significance but low public-heath significance" were misguided and jeopardized public health progress...
...been very difficult to get funding in the last few years because of where the money is being allocated by the federal government,” Jensen said. “The NIH budget has suffered and the funding rate has been extraordinarily affected...
Fortune, who had another NIH grant application rejected outright this year, said that she knows many people in similar situations who are still struggling to find grant money...
Jensen said that she and other scientists have gone to Capitol Hill to lobby for increased NIH funding, but for now many researchers have to apply to private foundations and charitable trusts for money...