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Science 9 August 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5276, pp. 731 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5276.731
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News & Comment

Eliot Marshall

NIH staffers are discussing plans to merge the peer review systems of three formerly separate institutes--the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse--that were incorporated into the National Institutes of Health under a 1992 law. The prospect is causing anxiety among some scientists funded by the institutes who fear unsympathetic treatment of behavioral research proposals in a "hard science'' environment. But NIH Director Harold Varmus and his extramural chief Wendy Baldwin have begun to nudge the reluctant partners together.




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