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Advocating for NIH Funding

  • 1.  Advocating for NIH Funding

    Posted 03-06-2025 03:34:00 PM

    Indirect costs, also known as facility and administrative costs, are not frills. Without them, our nation's research laboratories would go dark, life-saving medical research would stop, and patients - all of us - will collectively pay the price. More from my recent conversation with Scientific American. NIH Funding Cuts Would Hobble U.S. Medical Research, Insider Says

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    NIH Funding Cuts Would Hobble U.S. Medical Research, Insider Says
    "Laboratories would literally go dark," says a medical research insider, if Trump administration cuts to NIH funding go through. Patients will suffer from lost medical advances, he tells Scientific American
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    David Skorton
    President and CEO
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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