March 28, 2023
Why Science Funders Should Try to Learn from Past Experience
Science funding agencies feel political pressure to fund only research that is easy to explain and defend […]
A New NIH Director: What Should We Look For?
By Stuart Buck and Eric Gilliam It’s March 2023. The former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director […]
March 8, 2023
New Thinking on Peer Review at NIH?
The NIH has called for comments by April 24 on a proposed policy that would streamline peer review of grant proposals. […]
February 21, 2023
The NIH Should Expand Its “Person Not Project” Funding
Many scientists have criticized the NIH’s main grant mechanism (R01) as too focused on preliminary data, too […]