Provide Input

Below is an outline of some of the major issues and we invite you to provide comments. Your relevant comments, in full, with your name and institution, will be available on this website. We encourage group efforts to produce suggestions, and we ask you to identify the group from which your input comes, if appropriate.

• Conditions for science
  • Effects of hypercompetition
  • Rigor and reproducibility
• Training and the structure of the workforce
  • Graduate education
  • Postdoctoral training
  • Staff scientists
  • Improving career paths
  • Workforce diversity
  • Workforce age demographics
• Funding biomedical research
  • Government sources
  • Institutional sources
  • For-profit sources
  • Philanthropic sources
• Evaluation mechanisms
  • Grant review
  • Publication processes
  • Appointment and promotion processes
• Setting budget priorities
  • Translational versus fundamental research
  • Different grant mechanisms
  • Indirect and direct cost issues
  • Infrastructure support
• Comments on other topics that we may have overlooked

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