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After years of relatively flat funding, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is poised for rapid growth (see Figure 1). In February 2009, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the NIH received $10.4 billion in new funding. The funds are meant to stimulate the economy as well as to support research and are for expenditure between now and fiscal year 2010, which ends in September of next year.¹ In March 2009, Congress finally set the institutes' annual budget for fiscal year 2009 at $30.3 billion, an increase of about 3% from fiscal year 2008. And although details of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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