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Investigator-initiated grants are the engine driving our biomedical research machine. This process is exemplified by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its grant-review system for extramural research — arguably the most productive and widely emulated of its type in the world. The selection of research for funding is based solely on merit; politics has no place in this system. Thus, it is of immense concern that over the past year the NIH has had to deal with about one request per week from members of Congress concerning the details of specific grants. Some of these requests, such as one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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