David Garfield (@[email protected] and post)
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Computational biology, regeneration, aging, and evolution at gRED (Genentech). The views expressed here are most definitely my own.
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2016
@realDirge14 @pmwilker @NIH Do you honestly think this administration is going to take these savings and put them back into people or increase science funding?
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@pmwilker @realDirge14 @NIH Yeah, it might need reform. But this is also a system with funding levels that haven't been adjusted for inflation in > 25 years and this just gutted the whole thing.
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I have no doubt at all that reforms to overhead and the grant awards process needs reform. But this is *not the way to do it*. This is how you derail a train that has delivered growth and innovation to the US far beyond the money we've put in.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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@phuturize @NIH You need to pay to keep the lights on to do the research, and this requires some overhead. This has become bloated overtime, but also cutting it this way will basically shut down medical research in the US at all but the wealthiest universities.
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@mbeisen Yeah, I had both of those same thoughts plus the realization that probably contrary to his intentions, this is really, really going to hit smaller public schools in redstates. Also UCSF is probably freaking out right now.....
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@Prof_HowardHall @NIH Just NIH. It is an overhead paid to institutions *just* for the competitively awarded NIH grants.
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@janecoaston And isn't he, like, 25? This is not a child. He's an inexperienced but actual adult. You even get a rental car discount at that age.
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@WadeMiller_USMC @jonfavs @JDVance No, good management would be shutting up about it because its someone else's call. When the VP of the US weighs in, that is meddling in the manager decision process.
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@Hongbo919Liu @KSusztak I cannot say enough really just how impressed I am by this presentation of material. Solid, robust, easy to read. Deeply accessible.
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@RCownie @SashaGusevPosts So the interpretation here is that this is basically an extension of the attacks on anything that looks vaguely DEI? (this seems plausible, esp. if all you know of NSF is a search for "broader impacts")
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@pastramimachine @SashaGusevPosts I have some access to this world via college connections, and this is my take at least for the more well meaning (if wrong) subset. I work in a great private sector research firm. I don't get to play with Gila Monster Venom.
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@KSusztak @ScienceMagazine @Hongbo919Liu this is really a master class in how to do this. Well done.
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