Word: nih
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...proposed in his Jan. 28 State of the Union Address a program titled “Project BioShield” that would appropriate almost $6 billion not only to purchase ample countermeasures for major hazardous agents, but to fund research on biological agents through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a governmental organization devoted to biomedical innovation...
...NIH grants are awarded by a competitive process in which all applications are grouped and ranked by scientific field, after which money is allocated until available funds...
...NIH also maintains discretion over which fields will receive more money...
According to Martin, there is additional uncertainty about how the new budget will benefit Harvard because NIH money may be distributed to fields in which Harvard may not currently have strong research programs...
...budgetary increases in both NIH and Pell Grants were in doubt over the last four months, during which Congress passed 11 interim budget resolutions in an attempt to keep the federal government afloat as it entered the new fiscal year without a budget...