tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Instructions for repair"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Minireview cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Instructions for repair. | Comment Instructions for repair Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. Email petsko@ Published 28 April 2006 Genome Biology 2006 7 106 doi gb-2006-7-4-106 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2006 7 4 106 2006 BioMed Central Ltd Last month I wrote about the sharp decline in the success rate for scientific research proposals submitted to the US National Institutes of Health NIH and other agencies. That column provoked numerous responses from both administrators of the funding organizations and life scientists. The administrators while not denying some of the problems I discussed argued that things aren t quite as bad as they seem and that a large part of the difficulty stems from sizeable increases in the number of grant applications and the amounts requested rather than from poor choices in managing the doubling of the NIH budget that took place not long ago. The scientists on the other hand all said that things were even worse than I had claimed. Care has to be taken in drawing conclusions from either of these sources. I m sure that people who have experienced difficulty in obtaining funding are more likely to respond to that column than those who ve had success. And administrators probably feel the need to defend themselves and their agencies from what they might with some justification see as an attack by someone who doesn t know the whole story the way they do. Nevertheless although I think both sets of comments are useful I also think both largely missed the point. People who wrote to me were all concerned in one way or another with the amount of money available for research and how it is being allocated. That s what seems to be on everybody s minds and it s certainly worth talking about. Whether or not we re allocating the available funding sensibly is something that ought to be engaging