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Maybe NIH Thinks Small Laboratories Aren’t Translating Enough Research?

DrugMonkey asks “Is the NIH trying to get rid of smaller laboratories?” Before I get to my take on the answer, what I’ll be talking about is based on private conversations, so I won’t be attributing...

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NIH, Complaining, and the Iron Law of Institutions

There’s been a lot of craziness regarding NIH funding that I haven’t been properly able to slam (had a talk to prepare), but now I can. A recent rant left by D. Noonan about the problems with the NIH...

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NIH Budget Cuts Looming

If you care about science, then contact your representatives and ask them to oppose the Republican NIH funding cut proposals. As JuniorProf notes, most of the leads in terms of therapeutics are...

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Regarding NIH Funding, I Agree with…Newt Gingrich?

As long as NIH doesn’t end the R2D2 funding mechanism, we’ll be fine. The C3PO mechanism was always a joke, however. I’m hoping the concept that even a stopped clock is right twice a day is operative...

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Are Smaller and/or Newer Labs More Innovative?

Comrade Physioprof raises a point I’ve always wondered about: …this old saw has been brandished: Innovation is, and always was, higher in smaller/younger labs[.] There is never any fucken evidence...

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Regarding the Ph.D. Glut, Nature’s Heart Is in the Right Place, But They’re...

I’ve written before about the problem of the Ph.D. glut, so I was pleasantly surprised (shocked, actually) to read several articles in a recent edition of Nature hitting the same themes. For those who...

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NIH Inches Towards a Research Center Model

By way of DrugMonkey, we come across NIH’s new working group that “will examine the future of the biomedical research workforce in the United States.” It’s headed by Princeton’s Shirley Tilghman, who...

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The Economic Impact of Genomics-and Research As a Whole

The Wall Street Journal reports an estimate of the economic impact of the Human Genome Project (italics mine): Of the $3.8 billion federal funding for the human-genome project, $2.8 billion originated...

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NIH, NSF, and DOE Could Get Clobbered Thanks to Fiscal ‘Austerity’

This is why all the concern about the fake crisis of the U.S. budget deficit is so harmful–it has real effects on people’s lives, including scientists: Both Republican and Democratic proposals would...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Scientific Research

One of the points about science funding I’ve tried to make over the years (we have been blogging a long time, haven’t we?) is that the overheads and indirect costs associated with federal grants drive...

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