The entire effing purpose of the NIH is to fund BASIC RESEARCH, not product-specific research. The NIH understands that basic research and applied research are connected. Firms already have plenty of incentive to do their own product-specific research since they can patent that.
@lizneeley.bsky.socialA scientist who just lost her grant cuts straight to the heart of it: “Requiring that NIH only fund work leading directly to a drug or other biomedical intervention… would rule out much basic research funded by the agency.”
It’s pathetic & harmful to limit our understanding of health like this
