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From Director of National Cancer Institute of the NIH. This letter by Harold Varmus may shed some light as to why Gerald mentioned the troubles in DC as part of the latest batch of fundraising. It seems that public granting may have taken a serious hit. Key from the letter:

Furthermore, NCI’s Division of Extramural Activities (DEA) has postponed until undetermined dates several site visits to evaluate re-competing centers and large grant applications, and it has postponed more than a dozen meetings to review grant applications. Thus, the NCI’s grant review cycle could be significantly delayed, threatening a smooth restart of NCI’s support of extramural research, even if the NIH reopens relatively soon.

You can read the whole letter here: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/sunday-shutdown-reader-harold-varmus-on-self-destruction-in-the-sciences/280540/