Excerpt from Report of the President's Biomedical Research Panel: Supplement 3; Written Statements Supplementing Verbal Testimonies of Witnesses; April 30, 1976 While distinctions between basic and fundamental research, on the one hand, and clinical and applied research, on the other, have some conceptual value, priorities in the allocation of research funds should not be established solely in reference to them. Priorities should be determined by the degree of excellence of each application, with the criteria for judging such excellence varying according to the type of activity proposed. Priorities should also reflect the value of stimulating investigator - initiated research and the need to revitalize continually the research community through on - going programs for developing research talent. The existing structure of the National Institutes of Health has served these purposes well and there would appear to be no reason to dismantle it. Attempts to alter the nih review process would be particularl inadvisable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.