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NIH funding squeeze largely spares Yale

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Mary Tinetti and colleagues perform research on aging-related health conditions at the Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, a foundation funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1992, Tinetti said, who is director of the Pepper Center and the Yale Program on Aging.

But a few days ago, Tinetti said, they were informed that their annual grant had been cut by 30 percent from last year’s grant package — a move that takes the total reduction over the last five years to almost 50 percent.

“The amount of money Congress is giving NIH has drastically...

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