Figure 1. NIH/NHLBI Funding and Proposal Success Rate by Year.
(A) NHLBI funding grew rapidly from 2000 to 2005, grew again by smaller increments from 2008 to 2010, and declined steadily since 2010. (B) NHLBI proposal success rates have declined from 29.2% in 2003 to 13.3% in 2012. Data were extracted from references (21, 22).