Harvard president urges more money for research

Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust says the government needs to give more money to the National Institutes of Health to make sure research that could lead to disease cures or prevention stays on track.

Faust today told a Senate panel that five consecutive years of flat funding for NIH is deterring young researchers at premier academic research institutions. As labs are downsized, research that could produce lifesaving advances is being threatened, she said.

Faust presented a report produced by seven academic research institutions titled ‘‘A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk.’’
(AP)