An introduction to obtaining extramural funding.

Research funding at colleges of osteopathic medicine: 15 years of growth.

CONTEXT Colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) trying to stimulate research and develop research infrastructures must overcome the challenge of obtaining adequate funding to support growing research interests. The authors examine changes in research funding at COMs during the past 15 years. OBJECTIVES To track 1999-2004 data on COM research funding, COM faculty size, educational backgrounds ...

“The Good Old R01”

Original received December 23, 2015; revision received March 31, 2016; accepted April 14, 2016. From the Vascular Biology and Hypertension Branch (Y.S.O., V.R., D.V.S., E.T., Z.S.G.) and Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Office of Biostatistics Research (D.-Y.K.), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. The online-only Data Supplement is availa...

[measuring the Performance of Extramural Funding at the National Library of Medicine]

In Defense of the Questionable: Defining the Basis of Research Scientists' Engagement in Questionable Research Practices.

National Institutes of Health principal investigators reported their perceptions of the ethical defensibility, prevalence in their field, and their personal willingness to engage in questionable research practices (QRPs). Using ethical defensibility ratings, an exploratory factor analysis yielded a two-factor solution: behaviors considered unambiguously ethically indefensible and behaviors whos...

An introduction to research for primary dental care clinicians part 5: stage 6b. Obtaining funding.

Introduction This paper, the fifth in the series, will address the sixth of the ten stages of a research project suggested in the first paper. The ten suggested stages are: 1. The initial idea (asking a research question). 2. Searching the literature. 3. Refining the research question. 4. Planning the study. 5. Writing a protocol. 6. Obtaining ethical approval and funding. 7. Piloting the metho...