TY  - JOUR
T1  - BIomedical research in an age of austerity
AU  - Moses III H, Dorsey E
Y1  - 2012/12/12
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.14846
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2341
EP  - 2342
VL  - 308
IS  - 22
N2  - 
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget would be reduced by $2.5 billion, or about 8.2%.1 Given that three-fourths of the NIH budget is committed to previously awarded grants, sequestration could affect predominantly new applications and young researchers. These budget reductions at the NIH and at other research agencies, such as $0.5 billion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and $0.6 billion at the National Science Foundation (Table), will exacerbate tensions between large infrastructure projects (such as those that maintain public databases in genomics, clinical trials, and bioinformatics) and small investigator-initiated grants, which historically have been the primary source of new clinical insights.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.14846
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.14846
ER  -