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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2005;293:2082.

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At least one group of biomedical researchers needn’t be glum about the minuscule 0.7% increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Bush administration’s 2006 budget request: 43 scientists who were recently named Howard Hughes Medical Institution (HHMI) investigators, an honor that confers full salary and benefits for 5 years and the opportunity to take research endeavors in any direction the recipients choose (http://www.hhmi.org/news/032105.html).

The selection of these latest investigators increases the total number of HHMI investigators by 15% and provides an additional $300 million to biomedical research. Unlike most grants these awards are not meant to fund a particular research project. "We fund people, not projects," said Tom Cech, PhD, Nobel Prize winner and president of HHMI. "What we’re really looking at is the impact that the person will have: how innovative are they, are they a risk taker, are they someone . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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