Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 23-26 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Physiologist |
Volume | 63 |
Issue number | 1 |
State | Published - Jan 2020 |
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- Physiology
- Physiology (medical)
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In: Physiologist, Vol. 63, No. 1, 01.2020, p. 23-26.
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N1 - Funding Information: “Nowadays, data is everything”—the key to grants, publications and, in some cases, patents. That’s in part because the competition is so stiff today, he says. Over the past decade or longer, the annual budgets of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have failed to keep pace with the rate of inflation, meaning that both agencies have lost purchasing power. At the same time, the size of the scientific workforce has grown faster than federal research budgets, with the end result being more competition for grants. The chance of getting a research project grant funded by the NIH fell from 32 percent in fiscal year (FY) 2000 to 20 percent in FY 2018, meaning that only 1 out of every 5 grant applications submitted receives funding. “One of my mentors used to say that when people are hungry, they lose their manners around the dinner table,” says Stella Goulopoulou, PhD, assistant professor of physiology and anatomy at the University of North Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. “Right now, science is underfunded. People may be close to losing their manners.” Meanwhile, with the increased sharing of data, universities and researchers are more protective of their intellectual property (IP), says Hester, who chairs the IP committee at the University of Mississippi. In the 1990s, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office created the provisional patent to protect IP as researchers develop their findings. Once you file a provisional patent, the clock starts ticking. You have one year to file the full patent. Funding Information: IIf you work in a lab that depends on federal research grants, Congress needs to hear from you about why it is important to support the budgets of agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Funding Information: Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Travel Award sponsored by Novo Nordisk Foundation (Deadline: January 2, 2020)
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