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A new program will provide 150 early-career scientists committed to advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity up to $8.6 million each.

Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation says it hopes that adding a randomization step to its award process will reduce implicit biases in selection and lead to funding more innovative, impactful research.

Tying federal research funding to scientists’ efforts to inform and engage the public can help fix widespread indifference to science.

More than 3,000 researchers have signed on to a petition that expresses concern over the agency’s 2021 application for the funding program, which emphasizes three areas of computational science and might further disadvantage underrepresented groups.

Federal science agencies vary in their requirements. Here’s how researchers can follow the rules.

Federal grant support for technology transfer at universities will strengthen the national innovation system.

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has been funding research since it formed in 2004, giving out nearly $3 billion in grants to date.

Research organizations and universities have typically faced burdensome paperwork to convince funders their money would not be wasted.

Fei Wang, fired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, falsified data on grant applications.

Scientists will no longer be limited to one proposal as the lead or co-lead investigator per year.

The measures include, in specific cases, terminating awards for researchers who have been found guilty in investigations by their institutions.

High-profile universities produce fewer papers, and with lesser influence, per federal dollar than less-celebrated recipients of federal funding.

Female PIs apply for fewer grants, but retain support once they get it.

The new policy affects academic and nonprofit grants and cooperative agreements exceeding $50,000. 

The agency plans to ease restrictions on grants to a narrowly defined group of early- and mid-career researchers.  

Virginia Tech’s Yiheng Percival Zhang was arrested for misusing grant funds from the federal government.

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is offering small grants to aid scientists and students hit by Hurricane Harvey.

Authored by Salk PIs, the study claims women attract more federal funding, yet have smaller labs and receive less support from the institute.

Nearly 1,000 signatories are asking the National Institutes of Health to reinstitute the Grant Support Index proposal.