snowathlete
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That's interesting - I didn't know that. But it's still kind of weird that their funding rate for US researchers' proposals appears to be about 6% and they're turning down the likes of Nancy Klimas etc. who get funded in their other research areas and so are clearly top-notch. Jennie Spotila calculated the NIH's effective spend on ME last year to have been about $3 million or $4 million - and here's a quarter of that going on a UK study.
They must have put a good proposal together. I'd have thought that it's even harder to get a grant from the NIH if you are outside the US, because you would have to demonstrate potential benefit to the US still.