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NIH Examines Peer Review
Peer review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is getting an in-depth look, with the official goal of “optimizing its efficiency and effectiveness, and to ensure that the NIH will be able to continue
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NIH in the Budget Doldrums
What ended the spectacular budget growth of the National Institutes of Health, and what can bring it back? For decades NIH was the bi-partisan darling of Capitol Hill, receiving substantial budget increases even in bad
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NIH To Enhance Interdisciplinary Research with Behavioral a Science
One of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) leading initiatives is the Roadmap for Medical Research, which is designed to promote trans-NIH research. In an era of tightening budgets, the Roadmap is one of the
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Basic Behavioral Science at NIH: A Chronology
This is a long and complicated story, so we thought a chronology of major milestones might help. Remember that what you have here is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the hours
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NIH Moving to Online Grant Applications
Whole forests are breathing a collective sigh of relief at the news that paper grant applications will soon be a thing of the past at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In December 2005, NIH
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The View From Within
APS Member Abrams is Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) in the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to joining OBSSR in April 2005
