NIH in limbo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today I was told by management that they will not be renewing any service contracts on instruments until we get a new budget. These are instruments we use to analyze samples for human clinical trials, i.e. make sure the drugs we're going to administer to people is to specification.

Back in thr day when I worked for a start-up biotech, I had a colleague who had been trained and had worked in a Communist country. He was really good at jerry-rigging instruments to make them work. I wonder if we're headed in that direction.

That's ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Is there a union for nih employees? Asking for a friend

[Anonymous]

All NIH study sections (i.e. review panels) suspended until further notice. So no grant proposals will be reviewed. I guess the EO pausing all communications was worded in a way that caught this in its net? Not a good look for biomedical science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All NIH study sections (i.e. review panels) suspended until further notice. So no grant proposals will be reviewed. I guess the EO pausing all communications was worded in a way that caught this in its net? Not a good look for biomedical science.

Yikes. That’s troubling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All NIH study sections (i.e. review panels) suspended until further notice. So no grant proposals will be reviewed.

You won't believe the amount of quid pro quo involved in grant proposal review. About time this were looked at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All NIH study sections (i.e. review panels) suspended until further notice. So no grant proposals will be reviewed.

You won't believe the amount of quid pro quo involved in grant proposal review. About time this were looked at.

Have you been on one? Have you reviewed proposals for NIH? I have been on 30 such and have seen nothing like it. Don't believe propaganda or gripes from people who have an axe to grind.

[Anonymous]

Are you still funding grants for gain-of-function research in Chinese labs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you still funding grants for gain-of-function research in Chinese labs?

Someone's been doing their internet research!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All NIH study sections (i.e. review panels) suspended until further notice. So no grant proposals will be reviewed.

You won't believe the amount of quid pro quo involved in grant proposal review. About time this were looked at.

Have you been on one? Have you reviewed proposals for NIH? I have been on 30 such and have seen nothing like it. Don't believe propaganda or gripes from people who have an axe to grind.

Yes. That PP is ridiculous. These are highly respected researchers who give up their time to sit on these review panels and try to parcel out very limited funds among very deserving proposals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All NIH study sections (i.e. review panels) suspended until further notice. So no grant proposals will be reviewed.

You won't believe the amount of quid pro quo involved in grant proposal review. About time this were looked at.

There is none.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All NIH study sections (i.e. review panels) suspended until further notice. So no grant proposals will be reviewed.

You won't believe the amount of quid pro quo involved in grant proposal review. About time this were looked at.

Have you been on one? Have you reviewed proposals for NIH? I have been on 30 such and have seen nothing like it. Don't believe propaganda or gripes from people who have an axe to grind.

That PP has posted earlier and sounds like a disgruntled that they couldn’t get funded.

[Anonymous]

I am not the PP but NIH has a lot of wastage for institutes that have crazy overheads. All this needs to cut down and make federal research $s more efficient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not the PP but NIH has a lot of wastage for institutes that have crazy overheads. All this needs to cut down and make federal research $s more efficient.

It does have bloat. Suspending grant reviews is not “good for the states” tho.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not the PP but NIH has a lot of wastage for institutes that have crazy overheads. All this needs to cut down and make federal research $s more efficient.

No they don’t. Why don’t you name them all and explain where the waste is? I’m sure the troll farm has a list you can block and copy for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All NIH study sections (i.e. review panels) suspended until further notice. So no grant proposals will be reviewed. I guess the EO pausing all communications was worded in a way that caught this in its net? Not a good look for biomedical science.

Where did you hear this