Study: Black Researchers Getting Fewer Grants from National Institutes of Health

A study in Science magazine now finds that the black scientists who do start careers in medical research are at a big disadvantage when it comes to funding.

The grant gap was quite substantial. Getting a grant is never easy, but in round numbers, white researchers succeeded about 25 percent of the time, and blacks succeeded about 15 percent of the time. An obvious question is whether this is the result of overt racism.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139748454/black-researchers-getting-fewer-grants-from-nih