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The National Institutes of Health and clinical research: a progress report

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The development of clinical investigators remains a thorny national problem. The National Institutes of Health has instituted new granting programs to support clinical research that have already stimulated 450 new applications for support; private foundations have also joined the effort.

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Figure 1: Numbers of first-time applications for NIH research grants from PhDs, MDs and MD/PhDs (data courtesy of Dr. Belinda Seto, National Institutes of Health).

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