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...but how to pass up the opportunity?
As part of the economic stimulus package, the Obama administration has set aside $200 million for "challenge grants," two-year NIH research awards that are aimed to hire a bunch of scientists and pump money into the economy. They have to be applied for immediately. (Well, they've been out for a few weeks, but I wasn't really thinking about grants last month.) The application is fairly minimal - you don't have to have "background" and "preliminary studies" sections the way you usually do, just a 12-page argument for what you want to do and why it's important.
The catch is that, whatever your dream research idea, you have to squeeze it so it fits into one of their approved topic areas. I know what I need to do next: take my research about HIV conspiracy theories and develop an intervention to address the problem. It didn't seem to fit into any of the challenge grant topic areas... except that a couple of days ago my RA pointed out that there might be one that kind of, if you cross your eyes a little, sort of fits.
It doesn't cost anything to query, right? ( Read more... )
As part of the economic stimulus package, the Obama administration has set aside $200 million for "challenge grants," two-year NIH research awards that are aimed to hire a bunch of scientists and pump money into the economy. They have to be applied for immediately. (Well, they've been out for a few weeks, but I wasn't really thinking about grants last month.) The application is fairly minimal - you don't have to have "background" and "preliminary studies" sections the way you usually do, just a 12-page argument for what you want to do and why it's important.
The catch is that, whatever your dream research idea, you have to squeeze it so it fits into one of their approved topic areas. I know what I need to do next: take my research about HIV conspiracy theories and develop an intervention to address the problem. It didn't seem to fit into any of the challenge grant topic areas... except that a couple of days ago my RA pointed out that there might be one that kind of, if you cross your eyes a little, sort of fits.
It doesn't cost anything to query, right? ( Read more... )
