Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Neuroscience Center of Excellence, and Alcohol & Drug Abuse Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, United States.
Elife. 2021 Jan 18;10:e65697. doi: 10.7554/eLife.65697.
Biomedical science and federal funding for scientific research are not immune to the systemic racism that pervades American society. A groundbreaking analysis of NIH grant success revealed in 2011 that grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health in the US by African-American or Black Principal Investigators (PIs) are less likely to be funded than applications submitted by white PIs, and efforts to narrow this funding gap have not been successful. A follow-up study in 2019 showed that this has not changed. Here, we review those original reports, as well as the response of the NIH to these issues, which we argue has been inadequate. We also make recommendations on how the NIH can address racial disparities in grant funding and call on scientists to advocate for equity in federal grant funding.
生物医学科学和联邦科研经费并非免受美国社会普遍存在的系统性种族主义的影响。2011 年对美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）资助成功的一项开创性分析显示，非裔美国或黑人首席研究员（PI）提交给美国国立卫生研究院的资助申请获得资助的可能性低于白人 PI 提交的申请，而缩小这一资金差距的努力并未成功。2019 年的一项后续研究表明，这种情况并没有改变。在这里，我们回顾了这些原始报告，以及 NIH 对这些问题的反应，我们认为 NIH 的反应是不充分的。我们还就 NIH 如何解决资助拨款中的种族差异提出了建议，并呼吁科学家倡导联邦资助拨款中的公平。
