Estimating the NIH efficient frontier.

BACKGROUND: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is among the world's largest investors in biomedical research, with a mandate to: "…lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of illness and disability." Its funding decisions have been criticized as insufficiently focused on disease bur...

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Main Authors: Dimitrios Bisias, Andrew W Lo, James F Watkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3342295?pdf=render