As last month’s Ebola hysteria tightened its grip on the United States, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins publicly blamed a lack of congressional funding for the global health crisis.  "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.”

[On October 22nd] ...the NIH announced that it will grant $31 million to "enhance diversity in the medical research workforce.”
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"The biomedical research enterprise must engage all sectors of the population...,” Collins said in a statement.

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