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Published at www.nejm.org September 16, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMp0905046)

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Francis Collins, the physician and geneticist who was sworn in as the 16th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in August 2009, anticipates scientific opportunities and budgetary challenges. Although the NIH received $10.4 billion in new funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the money must be spent by September 2010 and the institutes' budget has otherwise been relatively flat since 2003 (see graph).¹ Fiscal year 2011 begins on October 1, 2010, and prospects are uncertain.

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