Medical Research Funding : Summary of a CRS Seminar on Challenges and Opportunities of Proposed Large Increases for the National Institutes of Health.

Summarizes proceedings of Sept. 1999 CRS seminar for Congressional staff regarding appropriations for NIH, held in light of Congressional debate about NIH budget increases. Discusses recent NIH funding history, current proposals to double NIH budget, ideas regarding usefulness of new resources, caut...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2000.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Summarizes proceedings of Sept. 1999 CRS seminar for Congressional staff regarding appropriations for NIH, held in light of Congressional debate about NIH budget increases. Discusses recent NIH funding history, current proposals to double NIH budget, ideas regarding usefulness of new resources, cautions and questions about NIH ability to make maximum efficient use of new resources, desire of patient advocacy groups to be involved in NIH research priority-setting, and current NIH activities responding to various issues.
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