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Nature Medicine 9, 1442 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm1203-1442b

NIH privatization push compromising science, critics warn

Tinker Ready1

  1. Boston

Grants technical assistants (GTAs) are the unseen shepherds of grant applications at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH): they track and file paperwork, schedule meetings, copy documents and type up memos. There were once more than 900 of them stationed across the 27 NIH institutes and centers.