NIH Budgets and Economics:
Abel Pharmboy pointed to a piece in The Scientist entitled "Losing Your Lab" which discusses the plight of the soft-money researcher who has run out of funding. Actually, the plight of one researcher in particular. The commentary is, however, getting...
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Posted on May 9, 2008 10:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The NIH grant applications which will be reviewed Jun/Jul are going out to reviewers right about now. Poking through my pile of assignments I find that I have three R01 applications at the A2 stage (the second and "final" amendment...
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Posted on May 6, 2008 2:22 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm dragging up a post from the archives of the old DrugMonkey blog today. It was originally published July 6, 2007 and outlined a few thoughts I had on changes that might improve NIH funded careers in the biomedical sciences....
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Posted on April 2, 2008 1:27 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhouni, has scheduled a press conference for later in the day and he is anticipated to announce broad ranging changes in the NIH. An official high up in the Office of...
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Posted on April 1, 2008 3:38 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Writedit ponders a recent Nature piece on PIs who hold largish numbers of awards and dollars from the NIH. The post from writedit covers some recent policy proposals seeking to limit the total number of awards any one PI can...
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Posted on March 21, 2008 9:48 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I previously noted a new website (brokenpipeline.org) and glossy report on the career "pipeline" problem currently experienced by biomedical research science in the US. This report catalyzed more discussion in the blogosphere on the issue (SciGuy, Jonathan Gitlin, Greg Laden,...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 8:20 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A group of research institutes have apparently banded together to discuss the dismal prospects of younger and transitioning research scientists, producing a slick overview document hosted at brokenpipeline.org. Participating institutions include Harvard, Brown, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Duke Medicine, Partner's Healthcare and...
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Posted on March 11, 2008 2:11 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apologies DearReader, we've been slacking in our duties around here (writedit is, of course, up to date). The NIH "Enhancing Peer Review" website has the Final Draft of the NIH 2007-2008 Peer Review Self-Study available as a PDF. The NIH...
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Posted on March 7, 2008 12:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Uncertain Chad responds to a reader suggestion regarding the cost of the Human Genome Project: The Human Genome Project (yes, you have to pronounce those capitals) cost about $3 billion. If $3 billion were yours to spend on scientific research,...
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Posted on February 20, 2008 7:59 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PhysioProf was recently discussing a figure from the NIH Extramural Data Book which pointed to a poorer success rate for women submitting competing continuation applications but not for new projects. His title "Old Boys' Network Favors Men's Continuing Grants?" was...
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Posted on February 19, 2008 1:43 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
