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To the Editor: National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants play an important role in the careers of the research faculty in medical schools. Given the importance of NIH funding in an academic career, we sought to determine several aspects of NIH funding that have, to the best of our knowledge, not been examined in detail. These are (1) the median length of time of NIH funding during the academic life of an individual, (2) the predictive value, for long-term funding, of receiving NIH funding at any given time, and (3) the effect of length of the unfunded period on the likelihood that an investigator will be subsequently funded.

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We obtained the funding histories of individuals who were awarded any NIH grants in the index years 1972 and 1982, and tracked individual funding histories for 25 years and 15 years, respectively. Data consisted of the number of grants each individual received . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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