TY - JOUR
T1 - Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Funding to National Institutes of Health Funding
T2 - Report from the Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation/National Institutes of Health Task Force
AU - Garg, Tushar
AU - Weiss, Clifford R.
AU - Gade, Terence P.F.
AU - Glasgow, Emily
AU - Palacios, Victoria
AU - Doshi, Pooja
AU - Oklu, Rahmi
AU - Sheth, Rahul A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Most SIRF awardees received NIH funding from the National Cancer Institute (47.4%) and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (23.7%) in addition to 5 other NIH institutes. Although these interventional radiologists received funding from various institutes at NIH, there is still a need to increase the engagement of interventional radiologists with other NIH institutes. The number of NIH grants awarded to SIRF awardees increased from 1 award in 2003 to 8 awards in 2019. This increase in the number of NIH awards shows a positive trend, which is probably seen because of the recruitment of younger and more research-oriented trainees to IR and change in the practice of IR with increased emphasis on evidence-based medicine.
Funding Information:
SIRF grant recipients for all types of foundation research grants ( Table 1 ) were identified from 2002 to 2020 by the SIRF/NIH task force, and the outcomes gathered included the name of awardee, type of grant awarded, amount of funding, and number of SIRF grants awarded to a single investigator. The NIH funding outcomes for these grant recipients, which included the amount of NIH funding, awardee institution at the time of grant award, awardee doctoral degree (MD, MD PhD, or PhD), funding NIH institute, funding grant mechanism, NIH review panel, and year of grant award, were recorded using the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools ( 8 ). Summary statistics were used to analyze the results of this study. Categorical measures were summarized using rates and/or counts. The Fisher exact test was used to determine the likelihood of getting an NIH grant for awardees of different SIRF grants. The chi-square test was used to determine the likelihood of getting an NIH grant for individuals who were awarded 1 SIRF grant, 2 SIRF grants, or 3 SIRF grants. Cross-correlation time-series analysis was performed to compute the degree of correlation between SIRF funding and the number of NIH grants received during the study period. The data were collected in Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington) and analyzed using R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria) and Stata Statistical Software: Release 17 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 SIR
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - The Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation (SIRF) aims to support interventional radiology (IR) investigators by awarding numerous grants to promote the advancement of scientific knowledge in IR. Over the last 19 years, SIRF has awarded 227 research grants, amounting to more than $4.7 million. To increase the engagement of interventional radiologists and IR scientists with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), SIRF created a SIRF/NIH taskforce in 2020. Over the past couple of years, the task force has been working to assess the return on investment of SIRF grants in terms of NIH funding because this metric is an effective measure of assessing the early success of foundation funding. The objectives of this report are to assess SIRF funding from 2002 to 2020 and investigate the conversion of this funding into NIH grants by the same investigators. During the study period, more than $37.6 million in NIH funds were awarded to SIRF awardees, which shows a return of 8 NIH dollars for every 1 SIRF dollar invested.
AB - The Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation (SIRF) aims to support interventional radiology (IR) investigators by awarding numerous grants to promote the advancement of scientific knowledge in IR. Over the last 19 years, SIRF has awarded 227 research grants, amounting to more than $4.7 million. To increase the engagement of interventional radiologists and IR scientists with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), SIRF created a SIRF/NIH taskforce in 2020. Over the past couple of years, the task force has been working to assess the return on investment of SIRF grants in terms of NIH funding because this metric is an effective measure of assessing the early success of foundation funding. The objectives of this report are to assess SIRF funding from 2002 to 2020 and investigate the conversion of this funding into NIH grants by the same investigators. During the study period, more than $37.6 million in NIH funds were awarded to SIRF awardees, which shows a return of 8 NIH dollars for every 1 SIRF dollar invested.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jvir.2022.11.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jvir.2022.11.010
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 36400118
AN - SCOPUS:85147988441
SN - 1051-0443
VL - 34
SP - 485
EP - 490
JO - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
JF - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
IS - 3
ER -