March 30, 2012
There are a lot of urban myths out there about NIH grant review. Here is a common one—your chance of getting funded is lower if your application goes to the Center for Scientific Review for review rather than to another NIH institute or center.
February 24, 2012
We get questions all the time about how much we spend on a variety of diseases and conditions—breast cancer research, Alzheimer’s disease, or childhood leukemia to name a few. Luckily, there is an easy way to find out.
February 13, 2012
Recently we explored the increase in average age of new investigators. While that average age has remained relatively constant over the past ten years, we are seeing something different in our entire pool of principal investigators (PIs).
January 26, 2012
Earlier this month, two working groups of the Advisory Committee to the Director released two requests for information to seek public opinion about two different, but important issues facing biomedical research.
January 20, 2012
I’m going to discuss the fiscal year 2011 research project grant success rates, and in doing so, I’m showing you a few screen shots from the NIH Funding Facts tool on RePORT, so you see how easy it is to use the site yourself to find some nifty information.
January 13, 2012
Well, the numbers for 2011 (fiscal year) are in. Here are a few facts about the applications and people we supported in 2011.
October 26, 2011
Thanks to everyone who has commented and provided suggestions on ways for NIH to manage in fiscally challenging times. I appreciate all the input.
October 17, 2011
This is a tough budget time for all federal organizations.
October 7, 2011
I hope many of you responded to the request for information from the working group of the Advisory Committee to the Director that is examining the future of the research biomedical workforce.
August 18, 2011
Let’s talk about the NIH sponsored study on review outcomes for R01 grant applications from different racial and ethnic groups and the accompanying commentary that were published in Science this week.
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