Tom Kindlon
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Plunging Grant Application Rates Test NIH’s Commitment to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) by Cort Johnson
This wasn't the plan. The NIH promised to reinvigorate ME/CFS research - not watch it go down the tubes.
A recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), though, reveals that the single most important source of funding at the NIH - the individual researcher grant applications that make up 70% of its funding - have basically collapsed in ME/CFS.
The silver lining to the precipitous decline is its starkness. There's no way to pretend that the NIH's plan for ME/CFS is working. If the NIH really is, as Francis Collins, the NIH Director has repeatedly said, serious about ME/CFS it must change its ways. Find out more in
Plunging Grant Application Rates Test NIH’s Commitment to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
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