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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on June 12, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(12):917-919; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm034
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NEWS

Budget, Review Initiatives Change Playing Field at NIH

Karyn Hede

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Heading into a fifth straight year of flat budget allocations from Congress, the National Institutes of Health finds itself searching for new ways to stretch investigator-initiated grant dollars just to maintain its current grant portfolio. After 5 years of budget expansion from 1998 to 2003 that doubled the NIH budget, the current fiscal belt-tightening has seemed particularly severe and has many wondering about the future of federally funded biomedical research.

Given the fiscal realities, the NIH is reviewing the way it gives out grants and intends to make changes to address some of these constraints. The center for Scientific Review (CSR), which oversees NIH's peer-review process, has held several open houses to get the research community's input on structural changes that will make reviews more efficient. An open house focusing on "disease-based" review groups, including cancer research, is scheduled for June 29 (see http://cms.csr.nih.gov/aboutcsr/openhouses.htm).

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Speeding the Process

Lightening the Load


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