That review, being undertaken by a nine-member panel headed by former University of Toronto President David Naylor, has been asked to produce recommendations by the end of the year on the architecture of basic science funding and support in Canada.
"If there's any money left for 2010 and beyond, we have a reasonable opportunity" for lasting growth in basic science funding, "notwithstanding the dire situation that the country finds" itself in, Moore says.
DOD is a major source of basic science funding for mathematics, computer science and engineering research.
Even American basic science funding is feeling the effects of the global economic decline.
Funding agencies and the scientific community We should analyze basic science funding and outcomes to determine how funding award mechanisms affect science.
In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, our governments are cutting back on basic science funding and, unfortunately, support for a project like HGD is unlikely.
Basic science research funding focuses on laboratory-based inquiry more than on disease processes in the context of the environment or large populations.
The review recommended that, while sustaining the current funding levels for basic science, "future increases in funding should be weighted towards translational and applied research until a more balanced portfolio is achieved" [ 74].
Worryingly for some academicians, the ministry in recent years has tended to favor applied research over basic science, giving preference in funding to the projects that promise short-term benefits for industry.
