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Flat funding of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) budget over the last five years is deterring promising young investigators and threatening the future of Americans’ health. A new report released this spring by Duke University and a group of six other academic research institutions describes the toll that cumulative stagnant NIH funding is taking on the American medical research enterprise and warns about the consequences of continued lack of action. If NIH does not get consistent and robust support in the future, the nation could lose a generation of young investigators to other careers and other countries. With them, a generation of promising research that could cure disease for millions for whom no cure currently exists might be lost.