Cornell University coronavirus researcher Gary Whittaker won a National Institutes of Health grant supplement to study how SARS-CoV-2 enters cells.
By Jocelyn KaiserScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.For the second time in just over 10 years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is scrambling to hand out billions of dollars in emergency research funding and scientists are rushing to get a piece of the action—even as some confusion and concerns abound.
But as in 2009, when NIH faced the tricky task of quickly distributing some $10 billion in research funds to help the United States recover from the Great Recession, the agency appears to be finding its footing as it moves to award the additional $3.6 billion