grant awards

A review of more than two decades of data finds racial disparities in the success rate of National Science Foundation grant proposals.

More than 100 grants previously approved for applicants in Britain have been scrapped amid a continuing dispute over the UK’s refusal to fully implement trade arrangements made when the country left the European Union.

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.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will invest the funds over 10 years across all stages of the STEM pipeline.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute appoints 33 new researchers, each of whom will receive roughly $9 million over seven years.

After refusing to pay the ransom demanded by those behind a cyberattack, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has been out of action since February 8.

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

All the while, staff members are meeting daily to prepare for another possible pause in operations come mid-month.

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

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