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The National Institutes for Health (NIH) is examining how it chooses grant proposals in response to criticism that its methods for reviewing and financing such proposals are "broken" and "arbitrary."
With more than half of the NIH's $29 billion annual budget going to higher ed institutions, it is the single largest source of academic research money in the United States. The current system only slightly advances existing knowledge instead of testing more innovative ideas that could transform science, according to critics, by supporting the "old boys' network" of scientists.
The current system is particularly tough on young scientists, often women, who usually need to find grant money ...