NIH Wants Its Minority Programs to Train More Academic Researchers

摘要

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) says it's time to get serious about producing more minority biomedical scientists. Admitting that they have been missing their target, NIH officials said at a public meeting last week that they will revise the rules of a flagship undergraduate program that serves mostly African Amer-icans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. At the same meeting, a key advisory panel urged NIH and the academic community to go even further, proposing an 8-year doubling of minority candidates seeking doctoral degrees in the biomedical and behavioral sciences.