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Biotechnology
How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It
...mechanisms for researchers in this field reinforce the shortfall in data infrastructure investment. Project-based grants, like the NIH’s R01, are focused on specific research questions or outcomes. These grants usually...
Metascience
Expanding Pathways for Career Research Scientists in Academia
...for grants), give up the higher pay and prestige of the tenure track in order to continue “doing the science” via lower-status staff positions (e.g., lab manager, research software engineer),...
Biotechnology
Research Into Far-UVC Systems Can Help Us Prevent the Next Pandemic
Introduction Dear Jonathan D. Edwards, The Institute for Progress (IFP) is a non-partisan think tank dedicated to accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity’s future. We appreciate the...
Metascience
To Speed Up Scientific Progress, We Need to Understand Science Policy
...is the IFP’s director of science policy, and P.N. is a senior fellow there). In 2022, the FAS and the IFP launched the Metascience Working Group, which aims to facilitate...
Biotechnology
An Innovation Agenda for Addiction
This paper is a joint project of IFP and the Center for Addiction Science, Policy, and Research (CASPR). Policy efforts to address addiction have stalled Over the past two decades,...
Metascience
Building a Better NIH
...risk-taking. First, administrative data (which contains information about applications, not just funded grants) could be used to study whether the “risk-taking penalty” is present at the stage of a grant’s initial cycle. Second, the...
Emerging Technology
Teaching AI How Science Actually Works
...like biotechnology, advanced materials and manufacturing, or micro/nanotechnology. Institutional block grants, expert-review-based tranches, and default sunsetting will give the labs the freedom to pursue unexpected directions while maintaining oversight. A...
Metascience
Funding Delays Are Slowing Scientific Progress
...the privately funded Fast Grants program, which made award decisions within two weeks, won praise. Less well known is that the NSF also makes some awards within one month —...
