#grant-allocation

#grant-allocation

I spent the early years of my PhD at an Austrian non-academic research institute, where competing for grants was the only way that my colleagues and I could secure funding for our research. Everything else we did, from publishing papers to presenting at conferences, felt designed, ultimately, to help secure the next grant. The system seemed back to front: surely it should be about the science first?

NIH director Jay Bhattacharya ordered an immediate individualized review of all current and planned research activities to address concerns about unallocated grant money by the fiscal year-end.