National Institute of Health Dermatology Funding Trends 2015-2019

The National Institute of Health (NIH) invests nearly $39.2 billion dollars annually towards the advancement of health science research (National Institutes of Health, 2019). Within the competitive landscape of NIH funding, we sought to examine the characteristics of NIH award recipients. The most recent study examining NIH award trends in dermatology from 2009-2014 reported a wide gender gap with women representing only one third of principal investigators (PIs) and a downtrend in MD-only PI (Cheng et al., 2016).
Source: Journal of Investigative Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research