Raising capital while still building the data needed to validate an idea is often one of the biggest hurdles for start-ups.

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...

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Packalen is an associate professor of economics at the University of Waterloo. This essay is part of a First Opinion series on the future of the National Institutes of Health and American science.

Rep. Deborah Ross, D-N.C., was one of more than fifty members of Congress that students spoke to about their concerns over federal funding for science. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images ...

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