Plan to reshuffle NIH draws criticism
JAN 31, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025015
Science : The revolt is spreading against a plan by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins to create a new center on translational medicine by reassigning existing pieces of the $31 billion agency, writes Jeffrey Mervis for Science. On 28 January, the top advisory body to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the component scheduled to inherit many of those pieces, agreed to draft a letter expressing its unhappiness with Collins’s plan, which would bust up the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) in the course of creating the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. And NIGMS director Jeremy Berg, who opposed the new center when an NIH management board recommended it last month, thinks breaking up the NCRR is a bad idea.
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