National Institutes of Health--oversight: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ... April 21, 1975U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 43 pages |
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Page 37 - Aiken is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Page 4 - 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 19 - NIII, impressed by the effectiveness of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development and its Committee on Medical Research...
Page 32 - Act in 1937, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH...
Page 3 - NIH. Despite its superb record and its dedication to science and the conquest of human disease, the NIH is being severely squeezed and criticized.
Page 4 - Earth and a basic appreciation of how man is related to his earthly ancestors and neighbors.
Page 5 - ... 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 5 - 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 1 - It is regrettable that the world's largest research center has been politicized. The morale continues to decline and finding qualified replacements for those who leave is becoming harder and harder. Indeed, the NIH has been without a full-time Director for nearly 4 months.