He has conducted original research both in laboratory experiments and in large-scale human studies; has received over 70grant-yearsgrant-yearseviewed research funding (mostly NIH), has served on several grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, has lecturesearchnsively, and has authored over 300 research papers.
The combined skills and resources of several research providers and support from multiple funding agencies were necessary to meet the multidisciplinary objectives of the project (summarized in Table 2).
It is unlikely larger trials would have sufficient funding to bear the entire clinical cost of the surgical procedures, and thus would have to rely on some of the clinical costs being covered by multiple funding agencies, including insurers, to successfully complete a large adequately powered outcome study.
In the near future, the efforts of multiple stakeholders, promoters and funding agencies will need to converge into more efficient and coordinated initiatives under the umbrella and support of 'networks of networks', which should avoid redundancies and inefficiencies in research.
Multiple stakeholders, including academia, federal funding agencies, industry, scientific societies, private foundations, and other public and private sector contributors, need to be actively engaged in supporting this broad training effort.
Developing communities of practice is particularly important for health markets where there is frequently distrust and a lack of communication across actors in different sectors and relevant actors reside in multiple different organizations (such as funding agencies, regulators, provider organizations).
Further, a "spatial dynamic," [ 20] may exist whereby expectations of positive outcomes are generated from little evidence due to the interaction of multiple stakeholders, including research communities, funding agencies, and patient groups as well as the media.
Eventually, they need to evolve into a separate field of research that brings together multiple investigators, institutions, and regulatory and possibly funding agencies, as well as pharmaceutical companies (Bath et al., 2009).
It should also be noted that the increasing interest in SSA by international funding agencies means there are often multiple - sometimes fragmented and duplicative - efforts on offer that local parties must consider.
Conducting high-quality RCTs is a challenging and resource-demanding endeavour that usually involves multiple stakeholders including clinical researchers, patients and patient interest groups, funding agencies, pharmaceutical companies, research ethics committees (RECs), and regulatory agencies.
Funding agencies will "develop policies that will recognize or acknowledge when multiple investigators are really acting as collaborators, senior investigators, on a project," Geoffrey Grant, staff director of the Research Business Models Subcommittee of OSTP's Committee on Science, told Next Wave.
