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  Vol. 295 No. 9, March 1, 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Funding for Biomedical Research

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To the Editor: The Medical Research theme issue of JAMA had one critical omission: discussion of the research program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Although Dr Moses and colleagues1 lament the lack of comprehensive analyses of biomedical funding, their table of federal agencies with medical research budgets of more than $400 million omits the VA, which has a budget of more than $800 million and whose investigators receive about that amount in outside funding. And while Congressman Porter2 urges support for research funding in several federal agencies, he does not comment on the VA.

Veterans Affairs investigators include 3 Nobel laureates and 8 Lasker award winners among other awardees. Our research portfolio over the years has made important contributions, including concepts underlying computed axial tomographic scanning, cardiac pacemakers, liver transplantations, and a vaccine for shingles.3 The Cooperative Studies Program has played an important role in making the randomized . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joel Kupersmith, MD
Joel.kupersmith@va.gov

Jonathan Brian Perlin, MD, PhD
Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, DC


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