Nine biomedical-research institutions say that stagnant funding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is holding back scientific progress.
“Very productive scientists are doing too little research. Instead, they are spending their time trying to get their labs funded again,” says Robert Siliciano of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, a contributor to the March 19 report to Congress.
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