Where Have All The Dollars Gone?

摘要

During the past decade, the u.s. national Institutes of Health (NIH) nearly doubled its annual HIV/AIDS research budget to $2.9 billion (see graph). More than half of that money-$1.6 billion-supports research grants. Of the remaining $1.3 billion, the big-ticket items include contractors ($443 million), intramural NIH research ($288 million), and research centers at academic institutions ($252 million). To gain a better understanding of the money flow in fiscal year 2007, Science asked the NIH Office of AIDS Research which institutions, networks, and individuals received the meatiest portions. These tables frequently overlap: The best funded principal investigators all have links to large collaborations (see "Top Dogs"). Several funding streams also exist, and to simplify this analysis, one table looks at Top Dogs defined by a different metric: researchers who received the most "investigator-initiated" support through the R01 mechanism.