National Institute of Health-oversight, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of ..., 94-1, Apr. 21, 1975 |
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academic institutions activities administrative AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANDREW MAGUIRE applied appropriate ARTHUR KORNBERG basic research Bethesda biochemistry biomedical research training biomedical sciences biomedical scientists budget cancer careers Chairman Clinical Center clinical trials committee Congress continue direct fellowship Director drugs effective emphasis essential extramural Federal Government Federal support field funds gallstones grants and contracts health sciences hepatitis hospitals human disease hypertension important individual fellowships Institutes of Health institutional training grant intramural program ISSELBACHER JAMES SHANNON JOHN HEINZ III laboratory LARAGH lobar pneumonia M.D. Dr major manpower mechanism medical research medical schools medicine ment Mider National Institutes needed NIH alumni NIH programs number of trainees panel panelist patients PAUL G percent physicians postdoctoral president problems renin research and development research effort research grants research programs research training programs result ROGERS salary SATTERFIELD III scientific stability STATEMENT support of research Thank TIM LEE CARTER training environment UDENFRIEND vaccine
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Page 6 - During the past 20 years this support has given extraordinary results and no one imagined we would acquire so quickly the firm grasp we have today of the basic designs of cellular chemistry and how it is controlled; for example, the nature of heredity which was clouded in rather formal genetic language.
Page 34 - Act in 1937, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH...
Page 21 - NIH, impressed by the effectiveness of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development and its Committee on Medical Research...
Page 36 - ... sciences. The OMB position is that the Government should pay for research, and that the payment should be adequate to create the incentive for each individual to invest in his or her own education. Thus the demand of a free market would regulate the supply of manpower: students would borrow enough to pay for their education, and institutions would charge full costs to the students. An Infinite variety of deferred and extended repayment plans have been proposed in connection with the implementation...
Page 6 - The difficulty with research support in our society, I have come to realize, is the failure to understand the nature and importance of basic research. This failure can be seen among members of the lay public, political leaders, physicians, and even scientists themselves. Most people are not prepared for the long time-scale of basic research and the need for a critical mass of collective effort.
Page 7 - ... ridiculed a tiny grant to someone fooling around with bronze and iron. People do not realize that when it comes to arguing their case for more funding, scientists who do basic research are the least articulate, least organized, and least temperamentally equipped to justify what they are doing. In a society where selling is so important, where the medium is the message, these handicaps can spell extinction.
Page 7 - The vast majority of legislators cannot accept the seeming irrelevance of basic research. Were there a record of research grants in the Stone Age, it would likely show that major grants were awarded for proposals to build better stone axes and that critics of the time ridiculed a tiny grant to someone fooling around with bronze and iron. People do not realize that when it comes to arguing their case for more funding, scientists who do basic research are the least articulate, least organized, and...
Page 39 - Aiken is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Social Insurance.