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Vital Signs

Facts & Figures - Taken for granted

$10.4 billion
Extra funds for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 2009 federal economic stimulus package

300,000
Number of jobs now supported by NIH grants to external organizations

6
Number of years the NIH budget has failed to keep pace with inflation

13%
Loss in purchasing power by the NIH budget over that period

14,000
Estimated number of scientifically meritorious research proposals that the NIH had approved but had been unable to fund

2:1
Return on every research dollar from the NIH in business activity (increased output of goods or services) at the state or local level

$90 million
Grants from the NIH to New Hampshire institutions in 2007

$182 million
Estimated new business activity generated in the state by those funds

69%
Percentage of NIH awards to Dartmouth Medical School funded on the first submission in 2002; the national figure that year was 64%

37%
Percentage of NIH awards to Dartmouth Medical School funded on the first submission in 2007; the national figure that year was 39%


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