“Rescuing the NIH before it is too late” from the Deputy Director for Extramural Research

Ruiz Bravo, Norka PhD

Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

Address correspondence to: Norka Ruiz Bravo, [email protected].

Additional information about these topics can be found at the following websites:

NIH Extramural Financial Operations Website http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/financial/index.htm

New Investigators Program http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/index.htm

NIH Roadmap for Medical Research http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/

Journal of Clinical Investigation 116(6):p 1463-1464, June 2006.

For a number of reasons, the NIH and the biomedical research community are facing a period of fiscal constraint after pronounced growth. In these difficult times, it is important that we all speak from the facts and work together to do a better job of explaining the importance of the nation's investment in biomedical research.