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Nature Medicine 11, 912 (2005)
Published online: 31 August 2005 | doi:10.1038/nm0905-912b

Complaints of gender bias compel NIH to revise awards scheme

Kris Novak1

  1. San Francisco

Selection of judges and applicants for the NIH Director's Pioneer Awards has been revampedWhen the US National Institutes if Health (NIH) announced the winners of the first annual NIH Director's Pioneer Award last year, one fact stood out: all nine awardees were men. This year, thanks to a flurry of protests from scientists, the winners are likely to be a more diverse bunch.

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