A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk.

You can lose a generation of
researchers pretty fast—in five
or ten years. You create such a
discouraging atmosphere they just
go somewhere else instead of
academic research. We don’t have to
lose 50,000 researchers, just 50
really good ones. Once it happens,
we won’t get those people back.

Joshua Boger, Ph.D.

Founder, Vertex Pharmaceuticals,
and Chair, Biotechnology
Industry Organization (BIO)

“I don’t think one researcher’s funding plight
means anything much in the scheme of things,
but I think my difficult experience is being
played out many times over. I hate to think of
all the lost opportunities for scientific progress
that are going unfunded, and the loss of
economic competitiveness that will accrue if
these funding trends continue.”

Anne Giersch, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Full Report: http://www.brokenpipeline.org/brokenpipeline.pdf