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...Anne B. S. Giersch, a professor at Harvard Medical School studying age-related hearing loss, has been grappling with the difficulties resulting from the limited resources at the NIH...
...Giersch said she has been waiting for NIH funding for two years while the inner ears of the mice she already dissected remain unused in her freezer. Giersch just submitted another grant application last week...
...Congress doubled the budget of the NIH between 1999 and 2003, increases credited with facilitating breakthroughs in research like the sequencing of the human genome and dramatic advances in cancer treatment. But since 2003, the NIH’s budget has been flat, causing the overall success rate for research project grants has dropped from 32 percent in 1999 to 24 percent last year...
...We’re hoping to change the vocabulary about NIH to one that talks about reinvestment to turn the tide,” Casey said. “There’s a goal to ultimately get consistent and stable support from NIH...
...Norka Ruiz Bravo, a deputy director at the grant-making division of the NIH, said that there are several programs targeted at young investigators to aid them in their transition from being post-doctoral fellows working with established professors to being independent researchers...