title: Politicizing NIH funding: a bridge to nowhere.
abstract: We live in a time of increased spending, mounting debt, and few remedies for balancing the federal budget that have bipartisan support. Unfortunately, one recent target for decreased allocations of the federal budget is the NIH; the discussion of the awarded grants and the grant funding process has been skewed and altered to present medical research in an unfriendly light, and this can have very damaging repercussions. Politicizing this process could ultimately challenge human health, technology, and economic growth.
authors: Jonathan A
authors: JA
authors: Epstein
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics*; D002017:Budgets; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.) / Q000191:economics*; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States