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“We're setting up meta science units both at NSF and at NIH where we're actually going to start running experiments. Maybe there are different ways that we should be doing funding, and then we can analyze those and then course correct and direct money towards p…”

“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.”

“In the Trump administration, we have not cut one dollar of NIH funding.”

“14% of any NIH grants went to DEI research.”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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…”

“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…”

“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 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…”

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

“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 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…”

“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'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…”

“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 …”

“I don't want to ban it. I want to set up a presidential commission of scientists who are not currently employed by NIH, don't have grants that I can give them bigger grants if they agree with me, and I want them to evaluate this.”

“So, for example, you could do the current way of how you're attacking Harvard and say, I'm gonna withdraw funding, I'm going to disallow international students for coming, I'm gonna, like, do a whole bunch of other things which are gonna cause a lot of damage,…”

“There is an upcoming vote in Congress in September, I believe, and it's on the table to cut the overall budget for research for NIH by 40%, four to zero.”

“Most of the basic research and clinical trials that are run in the United States are funded by the NIH.”

“The majority of Nobel Prizes has, in physiology and medicine, ah, and chemistry and related fields have come from work that was Either initially seeded by or certainly supported by the NIH.”

“The current administration seems to be taking a more like, they're gonna revise the way that NIH is structured potentially, 20 plus institutes down to eight, so all of it looks like downsizing.”

“Much of the work that's funded by NIH Here's the dirty secret is already completed because they tend to fund things that are very certain to be completed. And so people put forward grants based on work and preliminary data showing I can do this and it's alread…”

“I sat on study section for a long time, and I can tell you there were clusters of grants that didn't solve what we call, what good labs call, the deletion test. If this laboratory didn't exist, would it change the direction of science? You have to pass the del…”

“There is an upcoming vote in Congress in September, I believe, and it's on the table to cut the overall budget for research for NIH by 40%, four zero.”

“The majority of Nobel prizes has in physiology and medicine and chemistry and related fields have come from work that was either initially seeded by, or certainly supported by the NIH.”

“Much of the work that's funded by NIH. Here's the dirty secret is already completed because they tend to fund things that are very certain to be completed. And so people put forward grants based on work and preliminary data showing I can do this. And it's alre…”

“I think that the independent investigator model of science in this country, where it's the Huberman lab, or it's the whatever lab named after the PI, I think that's a flawed model. This is gonna really upset some people. There should be labs named after a part…”

“So at Harvard, you know what the administrative overhead was up until Feb. 15th? 69%.”

“It funds older scientists, much more than younger scientists, even though, I don't have to tell you this, it's often young people who have the most earth-changing ideas, the best paradigm-shifting ideas.”

“It sounds like the NIH, NIH actually needs a Vannevar Bush for 2025 or the future.”

“Institutional renewal is the charge of every new generation. And when we fail to update on the systems that we built 60 years ago, it's not their fault. It's ours. We're the ones deciding to live inside a building. That was built half a century ago that we ref…”

“We ran a survey of scientists back a couple of years ago of top scientists, and four out of five, like, 79% of them told us That if they could just spend money however they wanted, if they weren't kind of limited by, you know, what they're prescribed by these …”

“We were able to work with the confines of an FDA that was an NIH that was basically working against President Trump, trying to slow him down.”

“His name is now being floated as a potential head of the NIH, and I couldn't, I can't think of a better candidate, and I'm so hopeful that, that he ends up in that role.”

“By all accounts, it's like a hundred times more effective per dollar than what the NIH does in these areas.”

“I listened to this podcast once, I need to find it, but where a gentleman argued that over 90% of NIH grants go towards things that are potentially monetizable, so either a product or a drug, and that the NIH is less interested in funding things that might be …”

“The Dean of Stanford Med School who just took a bunch of money from opioid companies was appointed in 2011 to the blue ribbon panel on opioid recommendations. He shows 19 other elite academics. 15 of the 19 had direct payments from opioid companies that we Ver…”

“There are internal NIH emails that suggest that COVID leaked from a level two facility. They call it BSL two, which does not operate with the top level biohazard safeguards.”

“We knew ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were working. We knew that since 2004, because the NIH did this study that said hydroxychloroquine obliterates coronavirus.”

“It was killing or causing severe brain injury in one out of every 300 kids who got it.”

“Last year alone, the NIH funded two hundred and eighty seven million dollars in research into amyloid beta.”

“What I'm saying is the NIH budget per year for Alzheimer's and dementia is 1.9 billion.”

“And there's a very famous study That was done by a colleague of mine, Rafael de Cabo at the NIH in Bethesda, and he made three different types of diets for mice. One that had a lot of protein, the other had carbs, the other had fat, and he thought he would fin…”

“We didn't do the clinical work. They did.”

“We're actually at a point now where we're actually encrypting genomic data for NIH and running full-on genome-wide association studies on encrypted genomic data with, ah, sub-second response times.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Yeah, we've raised about nineteen million dollars in, in equity financing, and then another five or six million in sort of non-dilutive funds from small business grants from the NIH, and then a number of private foundations as well.”