John Trojanowski | Jun 8, 1997 | 3 min read
Ongoing discussions of funding priorities and mechanisms for the National Institutes of Health in the press and among investigators have focused on several critical issues, such as increasing or decreasing funding for established research areas, improving the peer-review process, introducing grant mechanisms to foster young investigators, and developing strategies to identify and support productive new research opportunities. Indeed, efforts to address these and other issues at NIH (the major s