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Though federal funding has proven tight for researchers around the country, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded nine Harvard scientists special funding to pursue innovative, “high-risk” research...
...award-winner, Frances Jensen—a professor of neurology at Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital—said that NIH usually requires some preliminary findings before it funds research, which makes these grants unique...
...NIH also awarded 12 Pioneer Awards, with Harvard professors receiving three of those...
...award, first given out in 2004, provides $2.5 million over five years to established researchers for work that is considered “highly innovative” and “potentially transformative,” according to the NIH Web site...
...what the University’s annual financial report describes as an “especially challenging” time for research scientists here. Federal funding for Harvard researchers grew just 1 percent in fiscal year 2006, slower than the rate of inflation. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which provided $363 million in federal funds to Harvard last year, has seen its budget decrease in real terms every year since 2003. Corporate-sponsored projects account for less than 6 percent of research funding at Harvard, but the University may need to attract more private money in response...