The Art and Politics of Science by Harold Varmus

Author:Harold Varmus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Priority Setting

ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT ASPECTS OF THE JOB OF RUNNING THE NIH, or of directing any individual institute, is the designation of research priorities. This is an emotionally and politically sensitive part of the job because it is closely watched by some of NIH’s strongest supporters, who often advocate for the NIH because of a passionate interest in a small fraction of what the NIH does. That fraction is almost always a specific disease or even a subset or facet of that disease.*

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