by Gary McDowell | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
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by Gary McDowell | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
by Gary McDowell | Jun 16, 2017 | Ideas for change, NIH, Policy
FoR recently posted a statement supporting the National Institutes of Health proposal to put a cap on the level of funding that individual investigators can be awarded from NIH. That proposal was dropped on June 8th at the Advisory Council to the Director’s...
by Gary McDowell | Jun 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Future of Research is looking to recruit new members to our Board of Directors, with up to 10 places potentially available. Members of the Board serve for two years. We are looking for people interested in taking a lead on small projects, or in working groups,...
by Gary McDowell | Jun 7, 2017 | Ideas for change, NIH, Policy
As described in our recent post, the National Institutes of Health have proposed a cap on the level of funding that individual investigators can be awarded from NIH. In “New NIH Approach to Grant Funding Aimed at Optimizing Stewardship of Taxpayer Dollars“, NIH...
by Gary McDowell | Jun 5, 2017 | Events & Networking, Grassroots movements, Ideas for change, International scientific reforms, International scientists, Policy
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist, Adriana Bankston. Being part of Future of Research, I often wonder whether the issues we are facing in the scientific system in the U.S. also exist elsewhere in the world. Although I grew up in Eastern...
by Gary McDowell | Jun 2, 2017 | Grassroots movements, Ideas for change, NIH, Policy, Surveys & Forums
On June 8th and 9th the National Institutes of Health Advisory Council to the Director will meet. On the afternoon of the first day, the Grant Support Index (GSI, which is being used with reference to the proposed cap on NIH funding), will be discussed. Given the...
by Gary McDowell | Jun 1, 2017 | Data, Ideas for change
At the recent NIH Council of Councils (viewable in this webcast), Michael Lauer presented the proposed cap on the NIH grants using the Grant Support Index (GSI) (see our previous post on the cap) and the presentation was followed by an active discussion. The talk...
by Gary McDowell | May 28, 2017 | Diversity in science, Ideas for change, Policy
This post originally appeared on the GCC Carpe Careers blog published on the Inside Higher Ed website on May 1, 2017. Re-posting with permission from Inside Higher Ed. Adriana Bankston provides advice for how research scientists can positively influence the personal...
by Gary McDowell | May 26, 2017 | Ideas for change
This post was originally published on the Genetics Society of America (GSA) blog ‘Genes to Genomes’ on May 15, 2017. Re-posting with permission from GSA. This post was co-written by Future of Research activists Adriana Bankston and Sonia Hall. Postdocs often lack the...
