NIH institute considers broad shift to 'people' awards

摘要

Fund people, not projects. That's long been the philosophy of the largest private, nonprofit U.S. biomedical research funder, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), but the $30 billion U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has remained a bastion of project-based grants. Now, in a major shift, some NTH institutes propose to move large chunks of money away from project grants into this type of no-strings support, which is based not on a specific research plan but on an investigator's promise.