A little surprised that there's no mention of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which has been doing basically what the people described in the article have

A little surprised that there's no mention of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which has been doing basically what the people described in the article have been doing for a much longer time and on a larger scale: funding smart people working on biological/medical problems. See this Reuters article from 2012 with a similar premise: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-nih-innovation/conformity-mediocrity-win-biomedical-funding-say-critics-idUKBRE8B412J20121205 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-nih-innovation/co...