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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the U.S. federal government’s principal agency for the support of medical research. The mission of the NIH is to develop knowledge that will lead to improved human health. With a 2002 budget of about $23.5 billion, the NIH’s institutes and centers award 84 percent of their money via grants to investigators in the United States and abroad. A smaller in-house...