Collins Talks Cuts, NCATS

May 12, 2011

Both Science Insider and Nature's News blog report on National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins' talk at a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill this week, in which he warned that the grant-funding success rate could drop below 20 percent for the 2011 fiscal year.

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