National Institutes of Health chief Francis Collins is very worried about the declining likelihood that NIH grant applications will be approved due to an expected shortfall in research grants. He said that could seriously impact the progress of personalized medicine. However, USA Today reports, Collins also applauds a call for universities to stop demanding federal research grants to fund the salaries of their professors. "One can understand why a college administrator would like getting a faculty salary paid for free," Collins says. "But I think we have to look in the long term at more of that money going to research itself." Article