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NIH backs disease detectives and RNA sleuths

With the budget at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) all but stagnant, and grant funding rates at historic lows, the wiggle room for agency spending decisions is increasingly tight. But one area where agency director Francis Collins retains both discretion and dollar-power is the NIH director’s Common Fund, a $545 million pot of money for trans-institute, trans-disciplinary — and hopefully transformative — initiatives that last at most 10 years. Today, Collins announced the latest two of these strategic deployments, both of which will launch in 2013. 

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