OSTP on the NIH.Congress approved funding for 6,500 National Institutes of Health (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ) grants for fiscal year 1985, but the Reagan administration has been trying retroactively to pare that number down to 5,000 (SN:2/9/85, p.85). In the May 30 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE The New England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. , Presidential Science Adviser George A. Keyworth II and Bernadine Healy of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Congress established the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs. (OSTP OSTP Office of Science & Technology Policy OSTP Onboard Short Term Plan ) claim the concern with numbers clouds more important issues. Before fiscal '85, they note, the funding of 5,000 new grants a year as traditional. Congress's habit of earmarking funds for specific research has also lent to the perception that grants are shrinking, and has had the effect of force feeding some programs for political reasons, while better science goes unfunded. All this talk about budget uncertainties, they say, may scare young people away from careers in biomedical research. |
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