policy, NIH, funding

Researchers with millions of grant dollars may face greater scrutiny by the funding agency.

New legislation would make all federally funded research publicly available within 6 months of publication.

Universities may have to pay thousands of dollars more to cover the salaries of researchers funded by the federal agency.

US Congress is close to passing a spending bill that would establish a translational research center at the federal science agency.

The 2009 stimulus funding channeled into the National Institutes of Health helped put scores of researchers and their support staffs to work.

The Human Society is still concerned that a US primate research center of illegally breeding federally-owned chimpanzees.

A draft 2012 spending bill would cut the maximum salary paid to biomedical scientists by grants from NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies.

In a draft spending bill, the federal agency gets a $1 billion increase in 2012.

Explore the past and present of US research funding, compare the investment priorities of the United States and Europe, and read an opinion from Research!America president Mary Woolley on what scientists need to do to secure the financial future of the US research enterprise.

History repeats itself, and so do trends in research funding.

Can science step in to find the best ways of allocating money for research?

America's key federal biomedical research agency officially releases its new policy on conflicts of interest.

The bill to raise the debt ceiling and reduce the deficit would slash billions of dollars for basic scientific and medical research.