Research Funding Opportunities: Fiscal Year 2006

Distribution of nonhuman animal versus nonanimal research funding at four U.S. institutions in fiscal year 2000.

Reply to “Funding by Lottery: Political Problems and Research Opportunities”

We thank Dr. Barnett for his kind comments (1). We agree that a major barrier to instituting a modified lottery is political, since government agencies are reluctant to acknowledge that peer review is unable to reliably stratify applications. It is counterintuitive that experts are little better than a random selection process at predicting the future success of proposals, even though the data ...

Global Funding of E-Collaboration Research: Challenges and Opportunities

Global funding of e-collaboration research seems to be on the rise. There are many possible reasons for this phenomenon, one of which is that e-collaboration technologies support key contemporary economic trends. A key trend is that of international outsourcing, which itself is part of another more generic trend—the one toward increasing global trade. This article looks at what seem to be some ...

Funding by Lottery: Political Problems and Research Opportunities

Fang and Casadevall present some excellent arguments for using a modified lottery to fund medical research (1). Research on research funding is ironically thin on the ground, but what research there is has identified significant biases and huge inefficiencies in current funding systems. If the current predominant model of funding through peer review (based on lengthy written application forms a...

Fiscal Year 2007

The goal of this project is to apply powerful new simulation techniques to tackle computationally challenging problems in chemical dynamics, with special emphasis on electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, nanoparticles, solid-state dynamics, and photochemistry. These calculations will be carried out with new high-throughput integrated software that we are developing. New research capabiliti...