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Stabilizing the Funding of NIH and ADAMHA Research Program Grants A Background Paper (1985) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction and Summary
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... In its 1979 and 1980 reports the committee -- recognized that stabilization could be defined in various ways -- with growth, no growth, or even a gradual decrease -- but emphasized the overriding need of a predictable market for the ideas and skills competing for research support; -- determined that the stabilization of support for investigator-initiated research projects should be the number one priority (as it had been for some years before) while also recognizing the importance of stabilizing the support of other elements of the science base, including research training and research centers; -- proposed, against a background of fluctuations in funded NIH research projects during the last half of the 1970s ranging from 3,800 to 5,900, that the targets for F.Y.
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... 1984, both the executive and legislative branches substantially adhered to a policy of stabilizing the support of competing NIH research projects at about 5,000 a year (which, because of rising costs, required significant funding increases each year) and of steadily raising the funding of ADAMHA competing research projects from 284 to 500.
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... NIH takes account of these differences in distributing budget increases but, because of the structure of individual institute appropriations and other factors, the agency has held the view that only small changes can be made from year to year in the comparative award rates and paylines of the institutes. The HHS 1980 planning document emphasized that, if there were any indications that the stabilization policy was having an adverse effect on the support of young investigators, appropriate actions should be taken to arrest that trend.
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... Another concern initially expressed about the stabilization of support for investigator-initiated research projects was its possible deleterious effects on other elements of the science base. There have been steady increases in the percentages of NIH appropriations allocated to research projects, but these resulted from a policy of preferential treatment that started well before the initiation of the stabilization policy.
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