What if the NIH had been 40% smaller?

Hi everyone,Still no new post, but a few quick updates.First, I have new research paper out in Science called “What if the NIH had been 40% smaller?”, coauthored with the great Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, and Bhaven Sampat. Here’s an abstract:Calls to reduce the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget by 40% have surfaced amid broader federal spending debates. To gauge the potential effect of such a policy, we analyze 27 years of NIH extramural awards and their peer review scores to identify...