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Published online 21 January 2009 | Nature 457, 364-365 (2009) | doi:10.1038/457364a
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Cash boost for US science
Researchers in line for $13-billion windfall.
After getting their first glimpse of the massive financial stimulus bill last week, US researchers are scrambling to work out how to get some of the billions of dollars proposed for science and technology into their laboratories.
On 15 January, the House of Representatives released details of its proposed US$825-billion economic stimulus bill.
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The NIH spending plan sounds like a perfect example of something that will only exacerbate current biomedical research funding problems. If NIH spends its windfall building new facilities, who is going to work in them? And even if people are hired to fill these shiny new labs, how will the research these new people do get paid for? New facilities and investigators will further increase the demand on already too-limited NIH funding and cause application success rates to plummet even more than they have. NIH should use all of the money to fund worthy extramural projects, not make a bigger nest in need of future feathering.