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Director Collins Implores Congress To Set Predictable NIH Funding Growth

The best way to accelerate medical cures, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins tells a congressional 21st Century Cures coalition, is to make sure that NIH researchers are supplied with a steady, predictable source of grant funding.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins told a congressionally-established “21st Century Cures” coalition May 6 that what NIH needs to translate biomedical research findings into cures for patients, is a “standing, predictable trajectory of support.”

The 21st Century Cures group, set up by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton, D-Mich., and the panel’s...

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