September 21, 2007

Medical Boom Continues Despite Less U.S. Money

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

When the budget for the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and 2003, American medical schools started a building boom for research space that has yet to subside, even though federal support for biomedical science has shrunk in the last four years, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Schools committed to expand their research capacity with the expectation that the NIH budget would continue to rise after 2003, albeit at a level closer to

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