Stimulus Application? Not Me
I am afraid the situation with respect to the Challenge Grants will be similar in that only a small fraction of the expected deluge of grants will be funded. NIH has provided a very specific list of over 60 topics and a simple calculation shows that only a couple of grants will be funded per topic. Science magazine quotes the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Irvine as saying that her campus will be submitting “over 200” Challenge Grants. My discussions with friends from other universities suggest that this is a typical response. Even if this is an overestimate by a factor of 2, this would still translate to many thousands of applications flooding into the NIH, putting the payline well below the 4% that I experienced from the DoD. As was the case with the Army grants, I suspect that if the topics are not addressed exactly, grants will not stand a chance.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 975419
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-66769; KP1704020; TRN: US201008%%72
- Journal Information:
- The Scientist, 23(6):25, Vol. 23, Issue 6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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