Feeding the Young

Increasing funding for innovative young researchers is making its way up NIH’s to-do list. But to win over a skeptical community, the agency will likely need to redraw some boundaries and dig a bit deeper than the offerings in its latest proposal.

Last week, NIH director Francis Collins rolled out a plan in his blog “The NIH Director” to seek input from the agency’s Advisory Councils on an approach to re-jigger the distribution of funds in favor of new investigators, at the expense of the established researchers on the opposite end of the funding spectrum...