What if you could get 8-year grants to do whatever biomedical research you wanted? This sounds like a dream for many of us in the life sciences, but the first news item this week is all about such a potential new funding approach. The item especially caught my eye as I’m going to be doing […]
Weekly reads: hydra heads, iblastoids, new 8-year grants Read More »
Something called NIH continuous submission for frequent grant reviewers is now a thing of the past. This is kind of a big deal. It’s got to be a challenge for the NIH to get enough qualified reviewers to serve on study sections as grant reviewers. The recruitment of reviewers just probably got even harder with
NIH continuous submission for frequent ad hoc reviewers is quietly dropped Read More »
If you work in academia and on grants, hen you might have been getting that grant Möbius strip, hamster wheel, Groundhog Day kind of feeling… The funding rate for the key so-called “R01” NIH laboratory biomedical grant has never been lower. In the long run, R01s are crucial to the everyday running of most biomedical
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A grant deadline is no picnic. Like thousands of scientists around the US, I too am working on a big NIH grant proposal due in a matter of a few days. If you are also in this boat, how are you all feeling right now since it is October 1st? How would you complete this sentence:
Home stretch on October grant deadline NIH grant & I’m…(fill in the blank) Read More »
Grants take too much time. They waste scientists’ lives. Biomedical science is all about data, discoveries, brainstorming, and ultimately making a difference in patients’ lives, right? Isn’t it true? I wish that were true and maybe at some point in the past it was true. Nowadays there is a different reality. The black hole at
The black hole: grants eat up most of scientists’ lives Read More »