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Science 21 September 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5538, pp. 2195 - 2196
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5538.2195
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U.S. RESEARCH CAPACITY:
A Controversial IDeA to Shrink the Biomedical Gap

Jeffrey Mervis

How should the National Institutes of Health (NIH) help states that do poorly in the race for federal research dollars? This month NIH will award $45 million to 23 states and Puerto Rico under its new Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network, part of a rapidly expanding program to help build up the capacity of those states to do good research. Some scientific leaders, however, see a downside to a competition whose participants are limited by geography.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)