The Council promotes biomedical research in the country through intramural as well as extramural research.

Over the decades, the base of extramural research and also its strategies have been expanded by the Council.

Intramural research has not been subject to outside competition or peer review, as extramural research is, but was simply approved by institute directors.

However, you express reservations about the success of extramural research and propose an Office of Management and Budget yardstick to measure its effectiveness.

Science administration in intramural and extramural research are completely different.

NIAAA's extramural research includes both clinical and basic science research.

Clinical research comprises more than 30 percent of NIAAA's extramural research, and includes programs in:

"Already more than half the projects that are up and running are unable to continue," said Dr. Wendy Baldwin, deputy director of extramural research at the health institutes.

Additionally, it was applied inconsistently across Institutes and was only applied to extramural research (research conducted outside NIH).

It also supports extramural research in the universities, hospitals, research centres, and with other local and international partners.