While I have not added new full-length posts to the main blog in years, I continue to actively answer questions and encourage discussion at NIH Paylines & Resources (where I also update NIH payli...
Greetings – for those of you arriving at the blog via the main writedit link, please refer to the NIH Paylines & Resources and Discussion: NIH Scores-Paylines-Policy-Peer Review pages (at the ...
https://writedit.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/questions-answered-discussions-held/
Congress will have plenty to say about this, but you can help them push back on this budget plan by communicating to your Congressional delegation (FASEB makes finding and contacting your elected...
It seems obvious that the first step to increasing the federal budget for scientific research is the removal of the sequester (the figure shows what budget cuts lie ahead otherwise). In fact, s...
https://writedit.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/stop-the-sequester-and-other-budget-news/
Even though the upcoming Aug-Dec NIH deadlines will likely experience a higher number of applications due to the recent change in policy allowing unlimited resubmission of unfunded applications, ...
https://writedit.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/looking-all-the-way-ahead-to-fy16/
Two rather different cases … Notice is hereby given that ORI has taken final action in the following case: Based on an investigation conducted by Advocate Health Care Network d/b/a Advocate Hea...
https://writedit.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/findings-of-research-misconduct-31/
In a new Notice, the NIH went beyond reversing its decision to eliminate the A2 submission to allow, in theory, unlimited A0 submissions of the same proposal (hopefully improved with each submiss...
https://writedit.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/nih-fairy-grants-your-wish-for-unlimited-a0s/
The President made a friendly suggestion about how Congress might spend federal monies appropriated for FY15. As shown in the Budget in Brief released by HHS, the additional $211M suggested for t...
https://writedit.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/nih-fy15-budget-in-brief/
In working on the book, I was disappointed that we could not get funding trend data for more ICs (10 of 24). Publishing the range of percentiles over which applications are scored versus funded a...
https://writedit.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/fy13-funding-trends/
From the summary for the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations: National Institutes of Health (NIH) – The bill includes $29.9 billion for the NIH, $1 billion above the fiscal year 2013 level...
https://writedit.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/nih-fy14-appropriation-in-the-omnibus-appropriation-bill/