You will find the work of one of our first grantees, Shehab Uddin, alongside that of one of our most recent fellows, Pedro Silveira.
Camfed was one of the Nike Foundation's first grantees and Ann was among the first to connect the concept of girls needing not just education but economic opportunity if they are to succeed.
A third grantee, Entopsis is developing a nano-engineered platform that makes it easier to diagnose multiple diseases from a single sample.
After the Culture Shed, the New York Aquarium is the city's second largest grantee for cultural capital funds this year, with $15 million budgeted for its restoration after Hurricane Sandy and $3 million for its continuing Ocean Wonders project, part of a four-year $108 million grant.
A fourth BUILD grantee, Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, perennially tops the list of schools that produce the most minority Ph.D.s in the physical and life sciences.
"This is a real change," says molecular biologist Didier Trouche of the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics in Toulouse, who was among the first ACI grantees in 1999.
Although that is a scaled back version of an earlier Harris plan that would have required that NIH bring down the average age of a first-time grantee, it could still draw concerns about such a set-aside.
The panel also criticizes how NSF monitors large awards, especially to first-time grantees, and directs the agency to draw up a plan to look more closely at the entire process, from before an award is made through its completion.
The average first-time NIH grantee is getting older, NIH budgets are nearly flat, and science has grown more complex.
Further evidence of the long-term impact will include the proportion of dissertations completed within 24 months of receiving the awards, the number of manuscripts from the dissertations that are published in peer-reviewed journals and the first destination of grantees upon graduation (i.e. field and geographic location of their job placement).
