April 30, 2004
Med Schools Get 45% of Research Spending
Forty-five percent of all federal funds for university research go directly to the nation's 126 medical schools, according to a report released last week by the RAND Corporation. States with few or no medical schools are thus at a disadvantage in winning federal funds, the authors of the report found.
Observers of federal financing for university research have long known that universities with medical schools have a leg up in the competition for grants and contracts because of the
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