July 25, 2008

NIH Trims the Money Expected for Clinical-Research Programs at Universities

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Faced with a flat budget, the National Institutes of Health has cut back several multimillion-dollar awards it was expected to give each of 14 academic institutions this year as part of a bold new program to invigorate clinical research. Some of the cuts were severe.

Many people were shocked by the award levels because they were so much lower than what the NIH originally indicated it might provide, said Harry P. Selker, director of the clinical-research program at Tufts University. His

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