Thomas Platts-Mills
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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Because the public doesn't decide which grants get funded.
There's a pecking order in medicine.
This is Thomas Platts Mills.
I'm a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, and I've been studying allergic disease for a long time.
And where does allergic disease fall in the pecking order of medical research?
It's actually much worse than anything you imagine.
Neurosurgeons are at the top, cardiac surgeons, and all these people fight with each other.
But they know that at the bottom, there are dermatologists and psychiatrists and allergists.
I got very little from the university, a little bit in the first few years, but then basically in the last years, nothing.
We've always had to get our own money, and I was getting NIH money, and the NIH has been very generous.
This last time, I actually got a one on a grant.
It actually means you're in the top 1%.
And then I got a merit award, and the merit award is absolutely wonderful because from 18 to 28, I'm funded by the NIH, 10 years instead of five.
Tick bite research is hot.
that Congress voted $100 million for it so that we can get tick bite related grants for different aspects of our research.
And that's been tremendously helpful.
Oh, come on.
God had finished making the earth and then the devil reached over and sprinkled ticks all over it.
You know that.
No, ticks are very interesting.
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