Biomedical science and federal funding for scientific research are not immune to the systemic racism that pervades American society. A groundbreaking analysis of NIH grant success revealed in 2011 that grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health in the US by African-American or Black Principal Investigators (PIs) are less likely to be funded than applications submitted by white PIs, and efforts to narrow this funding gap have not been successful. A follow-up study in 2019 showed that this has not changed. Here, we review those original reports, as well as the response of the NIH to these issues, which we argue has been inadequate. We also make recommendations on how the NIH can address racial disparities in grant funding and call on scientists to advocate for equity in federal grant funding.

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公平、多样性和包容性：美国国立卫生研究院拨款中的种族不平等

生物医学科学和联邦政府对科学研究的资助也不能幸免于美国社会普遍存在的系统性种族主义。2011 年对 NIH 资助成功的开创性分析显示，由非裔美国人或黑人首席研究员 (PI) 提交给美国国立卫生研究院的资助申请比白人 PI 提交的申请获得资助的可能性更小，并且努力缩小这种资金缺口并没有成功。2019 年的一项后续研究表明，这种情况并没有改变。在这里，我们回顾了这些原始报告，以及 NIH 对这些问题的回应，我们认为这些问题是不充分的。我们还就 NIH 如何解决拨款资金中的种族差异问题提出建议，并呼吁科学家倡导联邦拨款资金的公平性。