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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the NIH has come up with a new system for funding researchers. Will the new Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award prove beneficial?
Funding agencies should highlight their roles as risk managers to underpin public trust.
There is an urgent need to reverse the decline in research funding, and a lot to discuss about how decisions are made. But setting up a death match between Big Science and the rest is not the way to go.
Researchers need freedom and the flexibility that leads to serendipity, and they should be encouraged to take risks even if it leads to failure.
For half a century, the government funded research. Times are changing.
The same organisations that make it difficult to get a grant can be ridiculously laid back about how their money is spent once they have signed it over.
Advertising science as a driver of economic growth is a long‐term losing strategy.
The paper develops a credit allocation algorithm that captures the coauthors’ contribution to a publication as perceived by the scientific community.
A new computer simulation explores just how sensitive the process might be to bias and randomness. Its answer: very.
Study on the benefits of competition in providing incentives to scientists and the adverse effects of competition on resource sharing, research integrity and creativity.
The government peer-review committees that oversee grants are conservative by design. Given that their job is to put taxpayers’ money to good use, they are often reluctant to take big risks. The opposite is often true for crowdfunded projects.
A perverse focus on research cash and high-impact publications threatens careers and the aims of science itself, says Dorothy Bishop
The Wellcome Trust launches the new Collaborative Awards, enabling teams of researchers to apply together and bring new perspectives to the work they are doing.
How the US position as a global leader in biomedical research is being undermined.
Investigators with substantial, long-term, unrestricted research support may generally hold no more than one NIGMS research grant.
On transparency in the process of grant review.
Data show scores given to grant applications by external reviewers don't correlate with what actually gets funded.
“In the modern British university, it is not that funding is sought in order to carry out research, but that research projects are formulated in order to get funding.”
Ingredients to win a grant: start and finish early, seek feedback and file before deadline.
NIH to fund 85 awards to support highly innovative biomedical research.
71 per cent went to 31 universities because of 'narrowed' definitions of excellence
"The future of science (& humanity) isn't about funding, it's about supporting scientists to take risks once again."
Research funding will continue to be haphazard if an anecdotal approach continues to be taken. by Julia Lane
Fund people, not projects. The NIH is now encouraging its 27 institutes and centers to launch their own people awards.
An open research proposal calling for open research proposals and funding transparency.
America is a leader in funding for biomedical research, from government, industry, and the non-profit sector. And, for such a large country, the research community is remarkably spread out, with high-quality work being done in every region of the nation.
Highly fragmented and competitive system can undermine efforts to foster groundbreaking research.
