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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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