Brian Vastag on Nostr: A researcher I talked to recently put it pretty succinctly: NIH cannot and does not ...
A researcher I talked to recently put it pretty succinctly: NIH cannot and does not fund transformational research. NIH funds incremental research and that's all the institution is capable of doing with its $30 billion per year.
Published at
2024-09-19 17:20:09Event JSON
{
"id": "5718aa4f2ad759d8ab2f8acb330f17b7bed11f0c0ec9257e310bb9363ac20e1d",
"pubkey": "c69a32960f5b587616a11783e4a8aeee5f8b1e067fe4a16f05194ff3f2ff1271",
"created_at": 1726766409,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"494b81539a3a3abd488691a3e5661f93b9dd887c89545c00dd364d7c0769dc3d",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://sciencemastodon.com/users/brianvastag/statuses/113165363445816428",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "A researcher I talked to recently put it pretty succinctly: NIH cannot and does not fund transformational research. NIH funds incremental research and that's all the institution is capable of doing with its $30 billion per year.",
"sig": "bac28c6fb6047b0323628d3310b724e1b458e9b24f3aad1f430b837112d52d28fb2f8530b902ce75f0656d24fc9b148d48f360b00d898391116b03b93d0e8831"
}
