Jul. 6 at 8:14 PM
$ICU Another trump medical government head shows his ignorance and duplicitousness. —-NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya
-Paul Grothaus, Purdue University
“Forward funding” NIH budget plan will make competing for grants much harder. NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya has said he wants to see more “risk-taking” among NIH grantees, and that this grant model will serve to encourage that. “This request seeks to maximize the impact of NIH research by streamlining processes and more efficiently providing funding to NIH-supported institutions.”
As with almost every word Jayanta utters, this is a lie. This drastic change of policy, if implemented, will significantly reduce the money available each year for new grants. Coupled with the administration's proposed 40% cut to NIH funding, pay lines will plummet to the low single digit percentiles. This will be devastating for young investigators trying to get their first research grants. It will be devastating for new science.
