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Hyman took on the position of provost fresh out of six transformative years at NIMH, one of the 11 National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hyman, according to colleagues, was a precocious NIMH director, taking the helm...
...choice of Steve was only unusual in that he was relatively young, but he had incredible credentials,” says Harold E. Varmus, who as NIH director helped recruit Hyman to lead NIMH. “He was highly articulate, very energetic, and popular in the scientific community...
...really raised the quality of the neuroscience research supported by NIMH,” says Alan Leshner, who was acting director of NIMH in the early 90s and director of the National Institute for Drug Abuse, also within NIH, when Hyman was at NIMH. “But he also imposed a much higher standard on the clinical research. He wanted people to develop treatments for mental disorders that were evaluatable rather than believable...
Harvard has a $22.6 billion endowment, and every year it increases by nearly $500 million. Annually, the University receives roughly $200 million in NIH grants, as well as millions more from various federal programs. A Harvard education costs over $120,000 in tuition alone. To put it simply, Harvard is an attractive target for taxation...
...federally sponsored research support increased 14 percent, an even higher increase than that of the previous year. Government sponsors like the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) all boosted their funding of Harvard research, even though the NIH did not see an increase in appropriations...