Does this mean all proposals get funded or none get funded 🤞

Unlike a recent review that had one minor weakness under Approach but a score of 5. 🙃

Excited for the cancellation of my A1 proposal’s review panel next week just like happened with the original submission. Can’t catch a break. I’m also serving on a panel in 2 weeks and that is probably toast too.

Shouldn’t technical expertise be required to write a successful grant proposal?!?!

So they are aware of the problem but don’t plan to stop it.

What about stopping multi-year funding shenanigans?

As long as they have the cures they think they need, they can forget everybody else.

NIH can give 5 year MY awards that explicitly prohibit NCEs. My DP2 was like this.

Pretty common. But I don’t understand why they have to limit MY awards to 4 years if 5 is the financial cliff.

NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.

NIH has been toying with the idea of limiting R01s per PI for some time before the current admin, this is another way of doing that. I also think this admin doesn’t want PIs on soft money, primarily supported by federal funds.