President Barack Obama addresses 2011 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipients in the East Room of the White House, July 31, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete…
The International Brain Lab (IBL) project has an outstanding team of PIs, covering both theory and experiments. The measurements themselves are interesting, and can lead to important insights. However, what is most…
DARPA wants a dream neural interface. They can wait 4 years, but they want a complete plan now (abstracts due Feb 25, full proposals April 14).
This is a direct quote from the announcement for the Neural…
Federal RePORTER is a grant search engine that covers NIH, NSF, USDA, EPA, etc. The most recent year available is 2013, so you still have to go to the individual institutes’ sites. But handy nonetheless.
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Mouser has a new open hardware site that makes it easy to compare different platforms by specifications.
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C-SPAN had a in depth, on air discussion on the role of the NIH, the impact of budget cuts, and the future of the NIH.
Guests included:
Dr. Francis Collins, Director, NIH
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, NIAID
Dr….
Welcome to 13 years ago. Current NIH funding is at about the same level it was in 2000. The doubling has been undone, and we’re now at a level that is far below the…
The US Government is in shutdown right now. What does that mean for researchers funded by the NIH and NSF?
This notice explains what to expect with respect to the NIH. If that link is down,…
Henry Markram got his wish. He was just awarded 500,000,000 Euros to build a computer model of the brain. In NIH terms, that’s over 100 R01s…
A sense of scale can be valuable. Here are the 2012 Research & Development budgets of several tech companies and pharmaceutical companies compared to approximate annual disbursements from the Wellcome Trust and the HHMI. I’ve…
It’s hard to find any objective analysis that says that the US government can keep paying its bills without some combination of tax increases and cuts to entitlement programs. It’s also hard to find any objective analysis that would predict that politicians would get reelected for doing such things. With that in mind, congress inacted…
You probably already know that many grants have, in addition to the direct component that goes to the lab, an indirect component that goes to the institution.
US institutions negotiate with the NIH to set a percentage…
There are some open access journals that seem to have relativley loose editorial standards. And by “editorial” I mean “ethical”, and by “relatively loose”, I mean “no”. These publishers have been called “predatory” open access…
