September 28, 2009
University Researchers, Even With More Federal Money, Face Long Battle Against Flu
Influenza is the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States. But even as fears of possible pandemics in recent years have raised new public awareness of the danger, university scientists have struggled to maintain federal support for their research.
The National Institutes of Health, the primary supplier of federal research money to universities, allocated only $164-million for influenza research in 2005. That budget figure is now about $209-million—about seven-tenths of
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