Word: researching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...keep saying the nation's health-research program is "burning." Certainly that's excessive...
...overstatement to say the country's structure for the support of biomedical research is burning. The problems are significant enough that if they are not attended to soon, the U.S. could lose its position as the world's leader in health-sciences research. I do not regret the use of the word burning. We have a national treasure here that's in some jeopardy...
...ranks of scientists than we've had in 20 years. In academic institutions, young people are apprehensive about throwing in their lot with the field. Established investigators have become demoralized as a smaller and smaller fraction of their grant requests are funded. Institutional leaders see decay in the research facilities in which this research is carried out. And the entire enterprise suffers from the absence of any long-term strategic planning...
...have gotten to this situation because the leadership of the health- sciences research community has addressed the problems on a short-term, piecemeal basis, essentially looking at the problem only as long as the one- year budget cycle of Congress. That style of leadership has led to a virtual roller coaster of boom and bust. We are now suffering from a vacuum in national leadership for science in general and health science in particular...
...truth in that House report. And there is an edge in the language that I have previously not seen from the House committee, and it is a reflection of the frustration that Congress feels with the leadership of the National Institutes of Health and with the leadership of biomedical research across the country...