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16. An Exit Interview with N.I.H. Director Dr. Francis Collins

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Do We Have the Capacity to Utilize That Kind of Funding?

There's a lot of money or value on the table, obviously, from improving survival in these diseases. If you send us a grant with your really good ideas, it goes through our peareview system. And what's your chance of getting funded? It's about 20%. So we are leaving good science on the table by the fact that we can't fund right now more than one out of five.

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