“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
New work from the lab finding differential types of tissue growth across lobes underlies their differential forms of functional development
New paper from graduate student Fred charting the heterogeneous aging of the human cerebellum and its surprising role in buffering against cognitive decline
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The cerebellum ages unevenly, with some regions showing preservation that may help protect the brain from decline. The authors show that large cerebellar volume is associated with stronger cognitive r...
Microstructural pruning in human prefrontal cortex scaffolds its functional reorganization across development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.29.591716v1
Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Neural representations in occipitotemporal cortex emerge during development in response to visual ex
