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Laura Niedernhofer is counting her pennies. The mid-career molecular biologist moved last year to the Scripps Research Institute's campus in Jupiter, Florida - a risky decision that saw her building a new laboratory group at a time when the US government was cutting its support for science.
Two years after House Republicans threatened not to raise the government's debt ceiling, the full brunt of that once-unthinkable offense is now hitting the NIH. As Annie Lowrey reported in The Times this morning, 2013 has been the "darkest ever" year for the agency, because the budget cuts demanded by Republicans are taking a significant toll on research into medical cures.
Science is a big winner in Japan's 2014 budget, with the education ministry requesting $12 billion for S&T, a 20% increase over the current year's funding. Biomedical research is about to take off thanks to plans to create a Japanese version of the NIH.
The main factors determining the success of crowdfunding campaigns, and a comparison with the use of traditional funding sources.
The amount of government funding for science and technology in Canada is expected to decline for another year.
The World Academic Summit Innovation Index finds that university scientific researchers from many Asian nations are attracting substantially more industry funding per researcher than their American counterparts.
NSF invests $20 million in large projects to keep the nation's cyberspace secure and trustworthy: Three large "Frontier" collaborative projects highlight efforts to tackle fundamental challenges in cybersecurity.
The European Union's Horizon 2020 research program will offer researchers a generous source of funds for projects to resolve the challenges of today's society.
What they fund and how they distribute their funds.
The gravitational waves theorist saw physics as no one else did, but if he was around today his time would be spent chasing grants or tenures.
Paper underscores the limitations of peer review as a means of assessing grant applications in an era when typical success rates are often as low as about 10% in the US.
ERC funds 135 Proof of Concept grants, a press release.
Scientists who submit grant applications to the NIH will be required to explain the scientific premise behind their proposals and defend the quality of their experimental designs.
A statistical analysis of research funding and other influencing factors.
Science spending in Singapore is set to surge by 18%.
Research can only exist with good and secure funding, but when obtaining funding becomes a dominant part of investigators’ activity, the system has a problem.
The spending bill for the federal government ends more than 12 years of stagnant budgets for NIH.
Italian politicians have kindled the wrath of some biomedical scientists by hand-picking a stem-cell clinical trial for funding.
The ERC has published today an analysis of the portfolio of its projects funded from 2007 to 2013 under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP7).
The Wellcome Trust is to fund more long-term research projects because of fears that the pressure to publish and the need to show research impact will prevent academics from successfully tackling the world's most pressing challenges.
In the quest for the research money it is more important how researchers build their collaboration network than what publications they produce and whether they are cited.
Consultants think they can make publicly funded research more efficient. But they’re in danger of ignoring existing analyses – and real-life experience.
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.
