I recently had the dubious distinction to participate in and serve on an national institutes of health grant review called an NIH study section. I’ve done this before and have reviewed lots of grants over the years, but there have been a lot of changes recently and it is a whole new experience that is [...]
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Federal Government Spending
The federal government is spending a lot of time and effort on a federal bailout or stimulus package. Some of this stimulus package money is going to medical research. Over ten billion dollars is allotted to the national institutes of health to fund medical research projects. This money is grant funding that is being done [...]
Orphan Drugs and Orphaned Research
Let me say up front, this may be the most contentious blog I’ve written. So, beware. The definition of an orphan drug is that the market for said drug is less than 200,000 patients. This number of patients is considered to be not sufficient to be financially successful for drug companies to develop drugs. Orphan [...]
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