How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investigation (2019)

Re:How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investiga... by dekhn on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:33AM (#29980644)

you know what annoys me the most about this? I wanted to be an NIH researcher (US citizen, working in the US, on non-risky research and I couldn't get funding. That NIH is funding chinese institutes really bothers me, if legit us researchers can't get funding.

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Re:How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investiga... by trhway on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:38PM (#29988318)

"You're doing it wrong" as SRCUM peddlers like to say :) If you look at EcoHealth NIH grant for Wuhan you'll see that only about 25% of the grant money actually went to Wuhan. I'd guess you in your grant application didn't have 75% allocated for general sales and administrative/whatever money black hole and thus for example couldn't hire as a visiting professor/consultant some useful people :)

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Re:How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investiga... by dekhn on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @12:44PM (#29997067)

Amusingly, after my first R01 was rejected, I kept an eye on that study section and several people submitted R01s with exactly my proposal the year after and got funded. Those were people that were likely on the study section the year before and saw my proposal.

I also learned from that if you want to get funded by a study section, you volunteer for that section for several years and then you know exactly what to say to get funded.

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