title: Tough challenges for the next NIH director.
abstract: The new US President will be selecting the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at a time when the agency faces many challenges. Priorities for the new director include boosting the NIH coffers in troubled economic times, balancing funding for basic and translational research, and helping young scientists.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bonetta
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D011634:Public Health; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States