Researchers who hold at least three grants from the NIH make up a growing portion of its grantees, according to a new study. White men predominate among these “super” PIs, with women and Black researchers much less likely to be part of this elite group.
Researchers who hold at least three grants from the National Institutes of Health make up a growing portion of its grantees, according to a new study. White men predominate among these “super” principal investigators , with women and Black researchers much less likely to be part of this elite group.
The trends are “concerning” both because of the concentration of resources in a relatively small number of labs and because of the inequities they reflect, say the authors of a. Others agree. “A more level playing field where there were fewer superwealthy PIs would allow more excellent scientists to stay funded,” says University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, cell biologist Mark Peifer, who has supported capping the amount of NIH support allotted to individual investigators.
The new study, led by physician and health equity researcher Dowin Boatright of New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, analyzed grant data for the nearly 34,000 investigators NIH funded in 2020, homing in on the 11.3%—nearly 4000—who held three or more grants, totaling a median of $1.3 million per grantee. The relative size of this group has tripled since 1991, when only about 3.7% of the then-18,820 investigators had three grants or more.
Also troubling are the demographics of these super-PIs. White men, who made up 64.7% of all investigators, were overrepresented, accounting for 73.4% of the super-PIs. Black researchers made up 1.8% of all investigators but just 0.9% of elite PIs. Black women were one-third as likely to be an elite PI as white men; just 12 Black women held at least three grants. in the past couple of years.
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