I also built an analytics division, a group of very talented science Ph.D. s with whom I worked to carry out evaluations of research programs including the NIH Loan Repayment Programs, the K program, and most recently the relationship between race, ethnicity, and
the NIH awards process.
Berg also describes as an example «of how hasty the
process has been» that in early February,
NIH gave him about 24 hours to decide whether NIGMS should take over NCRR's Institutional Development
Award (IDeA) program for states with relatively little
NIH funding — «a large (> $ 200M), complicated program not closely related to our core mission.»