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Science 19 December 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5909, pp. 1797 - 1798
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158562
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Policy Forum

RESEARCH FUNDING:
Politics and Funding in the U.S. Public Biomedical R&D System

Deepak Hegde1* and David C. Mowery2

Research grant allocations can be affected by appropriations committee representation.

1Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

2Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: hegde{at}haas.berkeley.edu

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