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Emerging Technology
A Million-Peptide Database to Defeat Antibiotic Resistance
...extramural grants budget Instruct NIGMS program leadership to draft new RFAs Coordinate peer review with the Office of External Research A single, concentrated effort over several years would lay a...
Biotechnology
Curing Alzheimer’s by Investing in Aging Research
...funded fast grants have backed bold aging projects with an additional $26 million. This relatively small investment in basic research has generated billions in private funding to commercialize findings. Startups...
Emerging Technology
How to Implement an Operation Warp Speed for Rare Earths
...just grants or loans, the Pentagon deployed an innovative mix of lending, equity, warrants, guaranteed purchases, and a price-floor contract to stabilize returns and attract private co-investment. This expansive interpretation...
Biotechnology
How To Reuse the Operation Warp Speed Model
...in the creation of a pan-variant COVID-19 vaccine to date. The funders of the FastGrants program have cataloged the roadblocks delaying a vaccine until at least 2024: “These groups need...
Infrastructure
Leveraging LIHTC for Housing Abundance
...a huge improvement over Congress’s practice of doling out funds using population-based formulas, earmarks, and discretionary grants distributed by bureaucrats who have little capacity to monitor the implementation or the...
High-Skilled Immigration
Talent Recruitment Roulette: Replacing the H-1B Lottery
Executive summary Employers register for hundreds of thousands of H-1Bs each year, competing for just 85,000 visas. But USCIS awards scarce visas by lottery, rather than to the most valuable...
High-Skilled Immigration
Unpacking the Biden Administration’s Latest Actions to Attract Stem Talent to the US
...on reforming underrated pathways such as the O-1 visa for immigrants of extraordinary ability and the EB-2 National Interest Waiver should be applauded. These programs are vital for recruiting the...
Emerging Technology
The Case for a NIST Foundation
Executive summary The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) mission is to promote American competitiveness through advancing measurement science, standards, and emerging technologies. Despite its size — it receives...
