funding, culture, policy, NIH

As federal budgets tighten, the US government is getting serious about enforcing reporting and administrative rules that accompany academic grants.

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

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

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

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