discuss NIH funding
杠杆
All you have talked about below is the general rules for writing a grant. However, the real question we need to ask now is how to cope with the NIH funding crisis. New PIs will have difficulty to obtain grants, and old PIs will face the risk of losing grants. What should you do to increase your chances to survive in the biomedical research career? First, you need to read the NIH roadmap carefully to find out what exactly the government wants the NIH to do with the limited amount of money. By the way, that stupid roadmap, although some people (in China) praise it as a reflection of the wisdom of the US scientific community, will lead the US science to the valley.
(1). Translational research. Since 911, the government began to cut spending. NIH is inevitably one of the targets. The Congress complained that the NIH had not delivered products, for the past two decades, to improve public health. In response to the cry of the politicians, the NIH created the roadmap to focus on translational research. They have already revised the rules and criteria for xxxxuating research proposals, to include translational and clinic relevance. Every PI in our school has been advised to use phases and sentences on the first page to explicitly indicate the importance in clinical applications or impact on public health. We also need to emphasize these points in the Significance section of the grant.
What are the strategies? First, put your Nobel questions aside and begin to work on disease-related problems. Choose the projects that look like you can develop a new therapeutic method, discover a new drug, or treat the disease in three years. For PhDs, you have to begin to collaborate with MDs, although you think they are dumb in research. The two letters-MD do have an impact on your grant applications.
(2) Collaboration. The NIH has no money to support all the promising scientists, but they don’t want to kick them out of the research circle, either. So, they encourage PIs to work together so that one R01 can keep 2-3 labs for 4-5 years. They wish that when the spring comes, they would be able to feed all the PIs with enough fertilizer. They have decided, for the first time in the NIH history, to offer some multi-PI grants.
Good luck everybody.
Anyone wants to collaborate with me?
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NIH review board is better than AHA
by 职业
The key is well-written proposal. Then one should spend more time to socialize in the community and to publish more high-impact papers. A good mentor would promote your significantly.
Say good things about people. For example, I've read your paper years ago, and was thinking of meeting with you. ...
Another key is the topic/field. If it is not hot, it's going to be hard, no matter who writes the proposal.
All you have talked about below is the general rules for writing a grant. However, the real question we need to ask now is how to cope with the NIH funding crisis. New PIs will have difficulty to obtain grants, and old PIs will face the risk of losing grants. What should you do to increase your chances to survive in the biomedical research career? First, you need to read the NIH roadmap carefully to find out what exactly the government wants the NIH to do with the limited amount of money. By the way, that stupid roadmap, although some people (in China) praise it as a reflection of the wisdom of the US scientific community, will lead the US science to the valley.
(1). Translational research. Since 911, the government began to cut spending. NIH is inevitably one of the targets. The Congress complained that the NIH had not delivered products, for the past two decades, to improve public health. In response to the cry of the politicians, the NIH created the roadmap to focus on translational research. They have already revised the rules and criteria for xxxxuating research proposals, to include translational and clinic relevance. Every PI in our school has been advised to use phases and sentences on the first page to explicitly indicate the importance in clinical applications or impact on public health. We also need to emphasize these points in the Significance section of the grant.
What are the strategies? First, put your Nobel questions aside and begin to work on disease-related problems. Choose the projects that look like you can develop a new therapeutic method, discover a new drug, or treat the disease in three years. For PhDs, you have to begin to collaborate with MDs, although you think they are dumb in research. The two letters-MD do have an impact on your grant applications.
(2) Collaboration. The NIH has no money to support all the promising scientists, but they don’t want to kick them out of the research circle, either. So, they encourage PIs to work together so that one R01 can keep 2-3 labs for 4-5 years. They wish that when the spring comes, they would be able to feed all the PIs with enough fertilizer. They have decided, for the first time in the NIH history, to offer some multi-PI grants.
Good luck everybody.
Anyone wants to collaborate with me?
-------------------------------------------
NIH review board is better than AHA
by 职业
The key is well-written proposal. Then one should spend more time to socialize in the community and to publish more high-impact papers. A good mentor would promote your significantly.
Say good things about people. For example, I've read your paper years ago, and was thinking of meeting with you. ...
Another key is the topic/field. If it is not hot, it's going to be hard, no matter who writes the proposal.
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