Biomedical researchers are seriously concerned about a possible fall in their chances of winning a National Institutes of Health grant after its $ 10 billion in 2 years of stimulus money runs out in 2011. But the director of the National cancer Institute, John Niederhuber, does not seem too concerned. He told an audience in Washington today at the American Association for Cancer Research that NCI has understood how to facilitate the transition and avoid "the cliff" as it is known.
NCI did this, he said, using much of its stimulus money for 4-year grants to pay for the first 2 years with stimulus spending and "pledging" to find money for the third and fourth years. therefore, even if the applications are skyrocketing in 2011, as planned if people with 2-year stimulus funding are valid for new grants and other recycling their applications rejected the stimulus quality to cut funding would increase only from 16.8% to 15.7% of requests. "I think we did a good job of not having this down to 10%, for example "said Niederhuber.
So what this means NCI would be pleased with the 3.1% increase (to $ 5.26 billion) in the 2011 budget proposal from the Obama administration? "I do not want to send this message," said Niederguber Science Insider. If that's all NCI obtained meet the "promise" might require taking money from existing programs, including current subsidies, he said.
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