October 1, 1999
NIH Abandons Proposal to Create a Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Research
The National Institutes of Health has shelved a proposal to create its own Ph.D. program in biomedical research, in response to complaints that it would have overlapped with university programs and put new pressure on N.I.H. scientists to teach courses while they were vying for research funds.
The plan would have used the N.I.H.'s Bethesda, Md., headquarters as a campus, and some of the 1,100-plus researchers as faculty members, for a 15-student program designed to attract minority
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