Help Reduce Administrative Burden and Costs
June 28, 2011
This is your chance to have input on an important issue that greatly impacts the research community each and every day.
Who Are We?
June 23, 2011
As part of our effort to characterize the community that is supported by NIH, we looked at the degrees held by NIH-supported principal investigators (PIs) and whether the composition of that population has changed over the years.
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Clinical Center to Open Doors to Grantees?
June 17, 2011
Last week at the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director meeting, John Gallin, head of the NIH Clinical Center, and I presented the early progress of a committee developed to examine how we can promote the Clinical Center as a national resource by extending its capabilities to you, the extramural community.
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Kicking Off the Biomedical Research Workgroup
June 3, 2011
I mentioned previously that a working group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director has been charged with examining the future of the biomedical research workforce.
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Moving Forward with Funding
May 24, 2011
This has been an interesting fiscal year full of management and scientific challenges.
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Mapping Publications to Grants
May 18, 2011
Publications are one of the important products of NIH research grants, and authors are required to cite their NIH support in their publications.
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Update on Myth Busting: Number of Grants per Investigator
May 13, 2011
It came to my attention that the analysis we posted last month on the numbers of investigators with multiple awards couldn’t be recreated.
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More on the Top 20
May 10, 2011
Last month, I blogged about the number of investigators having multiple awards, with a focus on relatively well-funded investigators (the top 20 percent in total funding, or “Top 20”).
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More on Women in Research Careers
April 27, 2011
Last month I blogged about the participation of women in NIH extramural programs, and I promised more information when the paper that we prepared in collaboration with the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health came out, so here it is.
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Be Prepared for the Unexpected
April 14, 2011
I have heard recently from various groups in our community that there are increasing calls to action from animal rights activists.
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