As you may know, the lion's share of medical research funding in the U.S.A. comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is a government organization that reviews grant applications from scientists around the country and around the world and provides research funding for the best of those projects. (brightfocus.org)
At this point at the kick off of Grantome, our database incorporates data from the National Institutes of Health, which is the largest source of medical research funding in the world. (grantome.com)
Titled From Theory to Theatre: Overcoming barriers to innovation in surgery the report argues that spending on surgical research in the United Kingdom is pitiful: the two big medical research funders in the country devoted just $ 41 million to surgical work in 2008 - 2009, out of a nearly $ 2.5 billion budget. (sciencemag.org)