Jef Akst | Jan 25, 2010 | 4 min read
Last month, the linkurl:California Institute for Regenerative Medicine;http://www.cirm.ca.gov/ (CIRM) linkurl:pulled 3 of the 76 SEED grants;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56148/ it had given in one of its very first rounds of funding due to inadequate progress -- a 4% revocation rate. On the flip side, the linkurl:National Institutes of Health;http://www.nih.gov/ (NIH), which funds nearly 10,000 research grants each year, says it hardly ever pulls basic research grants. What's the ri