The NIH must reduce disparities in funding to maximize its return on investments from taxpayers

New data from the NIH reveal that the scientific return on its sponsored research reaches a maximum at around $400,000 of annual support per principal investigator. We discuss the implications of this 'sweet spot' for funding policy, and propose that the NIH should limit both the minimum a...

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Autor principal: Wahls, Wayne P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018
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Feature Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5882298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29570053
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34965
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spelling pubmed-58822982018-04-04 The NIH must reduce disparities in funding to maximize its return on investments from taxpayers Wahls, Wayne P eLife Feature Article New data from the NIH reveal that the scientific return on its sponsored research reaches a maximum at around $400,000 of annual support per principal investigator. We discuss the implications of this 'sweet spot' for funding policy, and propose that the NIH should limit both the minimum and maximum amount of funding per researcher. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5882298/ /pubmed/29570053 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34965 Text en © 2018, Wahls et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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