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Science 4 July 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5629, pp. 24 - 25
DOI: 10.1126/science.301.5629.24
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
VA Shaken by Plan to Cut Grants, Cultivate the 'Stars'

Jennifer Couzin

Anxiety is running high in the more than 1000 laboratories funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). According to VA staffers, agency officials are planning to funnel money out of some basic studies and into "outcomes research" and targeted disease areas more directly related to veterans' health. Basic research funding--which makes up some 50% of the VA's $400 million direct research budget--could shrink dramatically under these plans, which also include restructuring peer review.

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Veterans Administration support for medical research: opinions of the endangered species of physician-scientists.
S. ZUCKER, J. C. CRABBE, G. COOPER IV, F. FINKELMAN, C. LARGMAN, R. W. MCCARLEY, L. RICE, J. RUBIN, B. RICHARDSON, F. SEIL, et al. (2004)
FASEB J 18, 1481-1486
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