Cutting NIH Indirects is Sensible Medicine

Many academic centers have teams of staff to help prepare them. NIH should eliminate these paper requirements and universities should lay off these staff. NIH can eliminate people who read this paperwork. We don’t need to pay someone to dig a hole, and pay someone else to fill it back in.

Academic medical centers must eliminate all unnecessary administration

Current NIH RO1 grants are 20 pages of science and 80 pages of fluff.

We should randomize investigators to an RO1 cap at 2 vs not and study the effects.

Because universities took strident positions and became the academic wing of the Democrat party, they increasingly forfeited trust.