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Average age of principal investigators with MD, MD-PhD or PhD at the time of their first RO1 equivalent award from NIH (shown for fiscal years 1980 to 2011) continues to increase. There is no NIH center for palliative care yet, though this is an imperative need to empirically understand the pain and symptom palliation of the 2 million Americans who die every year and the several million who are seriously ill.
