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Sci. Signal., 30 June 2009
Vol. 2, Issue 77, p. eg8
[DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.277eg8]

EDITORIAL GUIDES

Challenging Times

Michael B. Yaffe1,2*

1 Chief Scientific Editor of Science Signaling, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20005, USA.
2 David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Abstract: The deluge of NIH "challenge grants" massively overloaded the grant-writing skills of individual scientists and the support skills of the grants administrators. These grants now promise to strain the pool of likely reviewers. As bench scientists and grant reviewers, our primary responsibility should be to ensure that a much-needed short-term increase in NIH funding does not threaten the long-term viability of biomedical research.

* Corresponding author. E-mail: myaffe{at}aaas.org

Citation: M. B. Yaffe, Challenging Times. Sci. Signal. 2, eg8 (2009).

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