Abstract
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), like other branches of the National Institutes of Health, is facing the tightest funding situation in memory. With a fiscal 1993 budget that is less than 1992's when inflation is taken into account, NIGMS expects to be able to award grants to only about 15% of the proposals it receives this year. That stressful situation has the institute's officials and advisers wondering how to ensure that a broad array of innovative research is funded. Earlier this month, NIGMS's advisory council debated whether the institute should take action to keep riskier research proposals from being shut out—perhaps by even going so far as to set aside money for wild ideas. If society wants to give us only a finite amount of resources, we have to live with that, NIGMS's deputy director Marvin Cassman says. But we want to be sure we fund as broad and diverse ...
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