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NIH skims and churns its way to new grants
Leaders at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) today were trying to point out the silver linings in the flat 2013 budget that President Barack Obama proposed for the $30.7 billion agency yesterday. Even without an increase, they say they will be able to fund 672 new grants and competitive renewals – an 8% increase, to 9,415 such grants, over 2012 levels.
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