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NIH FUNDING: Success Rates Squeezed as Budget Growth Slows
Jocelyn Kaiser
In addition to getting only a tiny increase in the president's 2006 budget request, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expects a continuing sharp drop this year in success rates for grant applications.