NIH cost of clinical trials -- $ 605,088 in 1996

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

This is data from the fy 1996 NIH budget. Apparently
518 clinical trial projects were funded for 313 million,
or about $.6 million per funded trial.

I'll try to get some further information on this.  Jamie

http://www.nih.gov/news/crp/97report/execsum.htm#tab1


TFY 1996 NIH funding of clinical research (CR):

Table 1. Clinical research indexing data, including clinical trials as a
subset. 

                         # of Projects     Total dollars

 Clinical Trials**         518             $313,435,513


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