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DOE officials decided that Miley's proposal should have been handled by the agency's Office of Science, which arranged reviews of NERI's basic research proposals, and not by the Office of Nuclear Energy, which oversaw the program's engineering grants.
Many E.U. scientists hope that he will back the formation of a European Research Council (ERC), a program to fund basic research proposals from individual scientists, which would represent a shift from the past emphasis on funding large multinational collaborations.
That's because the Office of Science is a mission-based agency: It focuses on research that furthers its goal of serving the nation's energy needs—unlike the National Science Foundation (NSF), which entertains a wide range of basic research proposals.
A study section which wants to "protect its turf" will seize on the statement "fostering the health and propagation of disciplines is not the function of NIH, but rather of universities" as an excuse to shoot down basic research proposals by people who they perceive as being outside their own discipline. .
Thus, this set of results indicates that the majority of scientists think that discussing the potential future health benefits in basic research proposals is not an effective way to increase the likelihood that a project benefits future public health.
4) It would be worth pointing out that in most cases US federal agencies will not award grants for basic research proposals whose goal is simply to replicate, and therefore it would be hard to fund such work even if one wanted to do so.
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While the benefits to society may be not realized in the near future, a substantial majority of respondents (74%) agreed/partially agreed on the idea that some degree of estimation of the potential contribution to human health is possible for every basic research proposal.
Scientists also claimed that more public funding (on average the 42% of the total public funding committed to basic biological/biomedical research) should be devoted to basic biological/biomedical research proposals in which discussing the potential of future health benefits is not required.
As one of the earliest studies on the research proposal, Myers (1990) described grant research proposals as "the most basic form of scientific writing" (41) since researchers need to secure funds before engaging in their research projects.
The establishment and validation of gene-, pathway-, or disease-relevant signatures provides tools for understanding the functional relevance of gene alterations in human diseases not only for basic research but also for therapeutic target proposal, diagnostic tools, and therapy response monitoring [ 37– 40].
Funding agencies around the world commonly request that the potential health benefits of basic research projects are discussed in the written proposals.
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