December 15, 2006
NIH Opens Grants to Researcher Teams
The National Institutes of Health will begin allowing more than one principal investigator to apply for and receive its grants to collaborate on a single project. As a result, the agency says, it will stop compiling rankings of individual departments within academic institutions by NIH dollars received, a calculation that would become more complicated under the new system.
The biomedical-research agency says that, over all, the policy change recognizes that the studies it finances
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