NIH

“So in particular, the NIH, which is sort of all the spending on, on research, on medical research, only about one percent of their thirty seven billion dollar annual budget goes to research on basic mechanisms of aging.”

“There's not a new drug out there that didn't have NIH research.”

“Veterinary medicine has not had the resources, and even from the NIH level, what the mouse has been very well characterized and studied, the dog really hasn't.”

“If you look at the pie charts for a number of government agencies, including the NCI, NIH in general, is preventative is sort of in the one to five percent of the pie chart, but its payback is enormous.”

“So, in the data out of the NIH is that from, in the 19 eighties, If you were 35, you actually had a chance of getting a large NIH grant. Like, that was the median age of the first large NIH grant, you were 35 years old. Now you're in your mid-forties.”

“So what I've done is I've asked the institute directors. I've given them the authority essentially to expand what they can do in terms of the portfolio. I'm not going to judge them to make, just like within Silicon Valley, I'm not going to judge them to s on t…”

“I'm just to put a new policy in place where I'm limiting the number of new public applications you can have, like to, we can have, you know, six a year, six a cycle or something. We have people writing 60 applications. And very clearly AI-generated. And then w…”

“The Maha Movement is a, it's basically a cry for help from the American people, saying, look, all these crime and disease problems, all these problems with our kids, and we're sick, we're much, doing much worse than folks in, in Europe in terms of our health, …”

“I would love to, that the, to make that happen through the sort of the power of the NIH, to allow the Max Perutz of the world, the new ones who are now, ah, ah, sitting there with great ideas, to be able to ha, to, like, try them out and change the world with …”

“Fifty million new dollars. 250 teams applied for large research grants, and we're gonna announce today that 13 teams are going to be granted you know, these grants this, for this Autism Data Science Initiative.”

“The NIH had sent money to the Wuhan lab but we couldn't audit it.”

“They want, they actually had a sort of a if you, a policy where if a regular person wanted to go find a scientific article they had to go, there was a paywall where they pay like 50, a hundred dollars. We got rid of that paywall for NIH-funded research.”

“I think the RAID problem isn't that that support for the early, I think we have a lot of portfolios pretty good on that. We could do better, but that's pretty good. The problem is, like, after you've had this career in biomedicine, how do you, like, do you, of…”

“Look, if you look at back in the 19 eighties and 19 nineties, the NIH was funding ideas that were like zero, one, two years old. The typical scientific project funded by the NIH in the 2000 teens, it was about 2002 thousand, early 2002 thousand teens was like …”

“And I'm gonna start to evaluate Long established investigators, because I think, I do believe they play a pretty fundamental role still but in the, in, in, in, like, how well do they advance the careers of the early career investigators that work with them, ri…”

“I think we have to do better at that, and we have to reward universities that are better at that.”

“I found out that a lot of folks at the internal investigators at the NIH, in order to publish their work, had to seek permission from their supervisors. I changed that. Like, no more permission. You, if you're an NIH researcher, you have a scientific paper, yo…”

“The early rise in HIV did not, was not met with a sufficient response by the NIH. We're talking very, very early in the early eighties of money going to research on this vital topic. And it was the political movement of HIV patients coming together saying, loo…”

“Most of nutrition science is funded by a big food company. They outfund the NIH, like, 11 to one on nutrition science, at least historically.”