freezers and the $30,000 high-performance liquid chromatography machine to the post- doctoral fellows there on grants. All told, NIH funding for just the School of Medicine totaled $95.1 million between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013. With sequestration, all of this investment could be EFTA00678669 undermined. During

aking viable choices away from them. Disclosure forms provided by the author are available with the full text of this arti- cle at NEJM.org. From the School of Medicine, the Fuqua School of Business, and the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Dur- ham, NC. 1. National Comprehensive Cancer Network.