<p>For those of us in the biomedical sciences, the concern is not that funding will dry up. It is that the NIH budget won’t increase at the pace of inflation. Since the NIH is responsible for most of the funding in these areas, it is the government entity to watch, not the school’s endowment. At the risk of spawning a political debate, I would just like to mention that Obama is planning to double the NIH budget over the next decade as was done in 1998-2003.
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