NIH Days of "Unexpected Fortune" How to spend $150 million on pediatric research funding?

Release date: 2015-02-05

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Currently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is trying to spend more than $150 million on "accidental wealth." This money is for pediatric research. However, from an external advisory group's response to the NIH's initial public announcement, things can be a bit tricky.

"Considering the nature of the differences and the complexity of what you are telling, I don't want to use 'nonsense' to evaluate, but it is a daunting challenge." NIH First Associate Dean Lawrence Tabak in Maryland Lila Gierasch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said after a speech at a conference in Bethesda. “Thank you very much for replacing 'nonsense' with 'challenge'.” Tabak replied half-jokingly: “We are just doing everything we can to make the most reasonable use of this money and increase the potential value of our resources. ”

This situation is unusual for the NIH with a $30 billion budget. The year-on-year decline in the budget means that the success rate of fund applications is also falling. But for two independent research projects in Congress aimed at helping children, the NIH is just obeying orders.

Last spring, legislators passed the Gabriel Miller Children's First Act and authorized NIH to spend $126 million over the next decade for pediatric research. In December, NIH received an initial $12.6 million grant. In total, the grant plus grant represents an extremely cautious approach to ensuring that NIH can comply with the will of the legislator to make it more understandable and discover everything from pediatric cancer, juvenile arthritis to teen suicide and obesity. The treatment of the problem.

At the same time, NIH suddenly interrupted the controversial national child study. The project should have monitored various environmental and psychosocial factors affecting 100,000 children from birth to 21 years of age. To this end, Congress ordered the NIH to seek other uses for legislators in the final 2015 spending bill for the $165 million allocated for the large study. A portion of the funds will be used to stop existing research and related activities, and the remaining approximately $140 million will be used for new research projects.

Over the past six weeks, NIH officials have been coping with legislative activities such as whirlwinds and planning their next move. Despite the different uses of these two dollars, they hope to spend their money on the use of new technologies that are constantly emerging. These new technologies allow researchers to collect and analyze large amounts of information.

Source: Chinese Journal of Science

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