The NIH is squandering an opportunity to fund more researchers
The NIH shouldn't abandon a research funding plan that would create more scientific breakthroughs and help train the next generation of researchers.
This spring, the National Institutes of Health announced a dramatic change to the way it would support biomedical research in the United States. NIH Director Francis Collins offered a bold new approach called the Grant Support Index (GSI) that would bolster funding to early-career researchers and limit the number of major NIH research projects that any individual could oversee to three. This approach to funding was proposed in part to grow a larger research community, and in part to ensure that individual researchers were able to responsibly oversee their funded work.
But then Collins — essentially the current flawed system — was in.
