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...national conference three years ago, National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni deplored the nation’s efforts in translational science, the process of using basic scientific research to improve patient care. Later that year, Zerhouni announced a major NIH-led initiative to address the problems in translational science, a push that paid off for Harvard this week when the University landed a major grant to fund its efforts in the area, according to a Harvard Medical School spokesman...
...policy that will require research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be made accessible for free online went into effect yesterday, according to an announcement from the institute...
...open-access requirement, which was announced this January, applies to research accepted for publication from yesterday onward. The policy requires an electronic version of the final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of NIH-funded research be made available to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central within 12 months of the official date of publication...
...Senate has approved a $2.1 billion increase to its proposed budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—by far Harvard’s largest source of federal dollars. Thursday’s vote came two days after University President Drew G. Faust testified before a Senate committee in favor of boosting the Institutes’ budget. NIH’s funding has seen a real-dollars decline in the last three years, leading many scientists to criticize Congress and the White House for stifling biomedical research. “The 13-percent loss in real dollars...
...host of innovations, particularly those in the biological sciences, are generating a great deal of excitement. Yet White House antagonism may threaten the realization of practical progress. In the current budget proposal, submitted by President George W. Bush and now appearing before congress, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be provided nominal funding at last year’s level. With inflation, this effectively represents a decrease in the real value of funding to the NIH. This perverse budgetary approach to American science has come at terrible time, considering the great potential in biomedical fields. Harvard—among...