DrugMonkey is an NIH-funded biomedical research scientist.
PhysioProf is an NIH-funded basic science faculty member at a private medical school.
January 31, 2008
Category: NIH Budgets and Economics
From http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-036.html The following NIH fiscal policies are instituted in FY2008: Non-Competing Research Awards: The FY 2008 appropriation as specified in P.L. 110-161 provides NIH a 1 percent inflation allowance to NIH investments in research supported by research grants. Implementation...
Posted by PhysioProf at 8:49 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognition
We had a prior discussion on cognitive performance doping led by the BM on the old site. This was sparked by a Nature commentary which followed a prior editorial. Nature now has a web poll going asking you to opine...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:58 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Drug Abuse Science
Recruiting the body's immune system in the fight against drug abuse is a hot topic. A recent piece highlights progress on cocaine vaccines: The vaccine works by getting the body's immune system to recognize the drug as foreign and attack...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 9:30 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2008
Category: Mentoring
Hey! New PI! Yeah, you! PhysioProf is talkin' to YOU! If you act like an asshole to the trainees in your new lab, you dramatically decrease the likelihood that you will achieve a sustained upward trajectory for your research program....
Posted by PhysioProf at 6:45 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 29, 2008
Category: Blogging
For those of you asking, the RSS feed is now up....
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Category: Careerism
You may be weighing the relative risks and rewards of submitting as your first NIH research project grant application an R21 versus an R01.
Posted by PhysioProf at 1:30 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2008
Category: Day in the life of DrugMonkey
It is not news to observe that child issues cause women scientists some considerable career anxiety. When to tell the lab or the PI that you are pregnant? Should you wait to start "trying" until after the job interviews? Until...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 8:09 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Drug Fatality
I missed this story at National Public Radio initially but luckily multiple sources have been all over it, see below. The nutshell from the NPR piece on a Cambridge, MA heroin-addict treatment center is as follows: Elissa has been on...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 5:20 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2008
Category: Grantsmanship
Applications for funds to support primarily mentored training of one kind or another have to be approached quite differently from your garden-variety R01 Research Project grant application.
Posted by PhysioProf at 6:20 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2008
Category: Careerism
A biology teacher in Wisconsin is soliciting guest bloggers for an Advanced Placement class effort [h/t coturnix]. The instructor (Elissa Hoffman) wants her students to become fluent in online learning and discussion. This brings today's discussion around to the topic...
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