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Many of the deadliest or most common cancers get the least amount of nonprofit research funding, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study that examined cancer research funding from nonprofit organizations.

The switch to double-blind peer review will affect roughly 650 scientists working on projects worth an estimated US$55 million.

The University of Alaska system faces a 41% budget cut. Why that is devastating to education, science, and society.

US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman is donating £150m to fund humanities research.

Six candidate research proposals lost in limbo.

The country's major funding agency says the tool reduces the time it takes to find referees.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will soon invite applications for open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. Applicants can request funding between $50k and $250k for one year. 

State and federal government pledge €17 billion in extra funds through 2030.

U.K. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) grant holders face bureaucratic headaches to shift grant administration out of the country by 1 May.

Libraries and funding agencies are finally flexing their muscles against journal paywalls. Authors should follow suit.

Can word patterns from grant abstracts predict National Science Foundation (NSF) funding? The data describe a clear relationship between word patterns and funding magnitude: Grant abstracts that are longer than the average abstract, contain fewer common words, and are written with more verbal certainty receive more money. 

Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.

The National Institutes of Health uses small groups of scientists to judge the quality of the grant proposals that they receive, and these quality judgments form the basis of its funding decisions.  In order for this system to fund the best science, the subject experts must, at a minimum, agree as to what counts as a “quality”proposal.  We investigated the degree of agreement by leveraging data from a recent experiment with 412 scientists.

The extraordinary standoff between the CDC and a drug company over patent rights raises a big question for the Trump administration: How aggressively should the government attempt to enforce its patents against an industry partner?

Academic-conference season is upon us, says Jennifer Tsang. Should I advance my career? Or pay my rent?

This week, SPARC Europe, in consultation with ALLEA, The European Foundation Centre (EFC) and Science Europe, sent surveys to almost 200 funding bodies throughout Europe. 

Women starting up research groups face more obstacles than their male peers, a UK survey finds.

The next European science and research funding programme, known as Horizon Europe, is designed to connect people with the achievements financed by their tax money, and to fix problems with innovation funding, according to Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.

As President Trump requests deep budget cuts on science spending, he is likely to meet strong opposition in Congress.

Contrary to first impressions, Congress has done a decent job standing up for scientific research.

New study of NIH funding says women overall get smaller grants than men, even when controlling for research potential. The findings have implications for their long-term success in academic science.

Using a structured systematic comparative approach, this study analyses differences in basic research grant funding between the main academic research funding agency of Germany and the main agencies of five other countries, including the Swiss National Science Foundation. 

The UK has benefitted from funder incentives that make Open Access appealing for authors, while US funders have taken a less interventionist approach to Open Access. This in turn has led to increased international collaboration for UK researchers.

The Wellcome Trust installs an Early Career Researchers Advisory Board.

If the documents are correct, they would raise doubts about the preliminary findings of a government investigation that He Jianqui acted mostly on his own.

This article in The Lancet suggests that a traditional, project-based grant review process outperforms the increasingly popular people-not-project funding schemes.

Swiss universities fear losing out on the European Union's "Horizon Europe" science research funding pot.

We first announced plans to investigate identifiers for grants in 2017 and are almost ready to violate the first rule of grant identifiers which is “they probably should not be called grant identifiers”.

Female scientists are less likely to win research dollars from the federal government's grant agency (CIHR), when the grant application is reviewed based on the scientist leading the project, rather than the proposal.

The community-curated website aims to connect early-career researchers with funding opportunities, useful resources and each other.