"Competitive for funding" email for my NIH STTR came after weeks of no PO contact requesting budget clarification. Already sent in most JIT documents especially foreign involvement. Tell me this is a good sign? Any things to watch for? Frankly I'd take a budget cut for the credibility this funding would bring to my fledgling company.
"Competitive for funding" email for my NIH STTR came after weeks of no PO contact requesting budget clarification. Already sent in most JIT documents especially foreign involvement. Tell me this is a good sign? Any things to watch for? Frankly I'd take a budget cut for the credibility this funding would bring to my fledgling company.
Submitted last June, got word shortly before midnight What can go wrong now? I’ve had lots of R01’s but this is my first small business proposal and I’ve never been the one to organize the JIT info. Thanks for any advice.
I know this will not be accepted broadly, but in my opinion, NIH needed a shake up. It became way too inbred. I’ve been funded continuously for more than two decades. This is what I’ve seen in a study section in which I was a regular member. The chair was well known for telling PI’s who reviewed their grants. It was also well known in our study section that certain members would take retribution in their reviews. And so it was not unusual for reviewers to not say anything negative. Reminded me of a shakedown. In an egregious move, the spouse of one of the higher-ups in NIH thought they were mistreated by a prominent institution. council next round disapproved a proposal (mine) recommended for funding. council members were routinely not disqualifying themselves, which admittedly difficult when they are all coauthors on each other’s papers. It became such a nightmare that I did my best to steer my proposals away from the seemingly most appropriate review committees. Just for fun a few years ago, i tried a new idea on that committee and of course was triaged. A few years later one of the members was funded for a large inter-institutional grant with nearly the identical title. This isn’t sour grapes; I’m retiring soon at age over 70, I finally have the freedom to speak out. And as a final note, you can’t tell me it was ethical for Fauci’s wife to be the ethics advisor.