NIH Study: Morgan Leads MD in Undergraduates Who Go On to Earn S.T.E.M. Doctorate

The National Institutes of Health shocked itself in 2011 with a study that found a wide race-based variance in its grant awards.

One immediate question was whether the disparity—black scientists were found to be getting less than 1 percent of the main categories of NIH grants—was due primarily to bias in the NIH’s grant-review system or to the quality and quantity of grant applications from black researchers.