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Published online 17 September 2008 | Nature 455, 276 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455276d
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US health agency gets creative with grants
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It is commendable that the NIH has focused efforts to fund creativity in research. However, it is more likely that the grants that receive these "transformational" awards have already been predetermined. These grants will further concentrate support to a select few researchers and serve to propagate existing hypotheses. Brian