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'NIH at the Crossroads'
Zerhouni Addresses Advisory Councils, Scientific
Societies |
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NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni addresses
the NIA advisory council on May 24. He has been visiting
council meetings and scientific societies. |
Providing a strong message backed by a storehouse
of data, NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni is touring all of the
institute and center advisory councils this spring, as well as
speaking before a number of scientific societies such as FASEB.
He is on a mission to educate an influential percentage of the
agency's more than 31,000 outside counselors about NIH's current
budget situation: Yes, the budget doubled between 1998 and 2003,
but that created a flood of applications that subsequent relatively
flat budgets could not hope to reward. As the success rate for
competing for an NIH grant dips from a traditional one-third of
all applicants to about 1 in 5, there is discontent and there are
misperceptions that need addressing.
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Evidence Is 'Lab' Tested
K-9 Partners Are Here to Help |
| By Belle Waring |
His olfactory lobe is bigger than ours, and
his turbinates — those curvy bones inside the nose — are
longer. Under the skin at the nape of his neck, he wears a microchip
the size of a grain of rice. This is one NIH employee who's never
called in sick. If called to a court of law, he can serve as state's
witness without speaking word one.
Meet Flyer, drug dog with the NIH Police.
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