NCI, CHRIS SPIELMANN
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will limit the number of grants it provides to well-funded investigators, according to a new policy it announced last week (April 27).
In 2012, the NIH implemented an institutes-wide policy under which grant applications from investigators already receiving more than $1 million in funding would receive additional scrutiny. The new NINDS rules, which will apply to grants under consideration from January 2019 and beyond, will extend the stricter review to labs whose funding support would exceed $1 million after the acceptance of a pending proposal.
The policy “will allow us to fund more early stage investigators and help people who just missed the pay line [funding ...
