Funding Biomedical Research Programs Contributions of the Markey Trust (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Background of the Research Program Grants
Background of the Research Program Grants
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Discretionary funds to support promising research opportunities and fields of investigation 6. Identification and support of small groups of investigators already established and recognized for outstanding biomedical research 7.
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They urged the Trustees to emulate a model based on the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge that had provided such support with extraordinary results. Consequently, the Trustees identified a set of elements to guide the selection of awardees that might predict success and maximize the impact of Markey Research Program Grants.
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Selecting the Initial Grants Early in its tenure, the Trustees recognized that they needed to establish a systematic procedure to rationalize the selection of Research Programs Grants that underwent a thorough review process. They quickly came to the conclusion that a considerable number of applications could not be funded either because the applicants were not legally qualified or because the purpose of the application was clearly outside the purposed of the Trust.
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Nevertheless, the Trust received a large number of proposals for basic biomedical research that did not violate any of the previously established Trustee policies. The Executive Committee concluded that such applications could be denied by the Director for Medical Science, with appropriate advice from the expert consultants, or any one or more of the following general policy reasons: · The National Institutes of Health would normally fund the proposal, but the proposal had not been submitted to NIH or had been submitted and had not been approved.
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but not as a formal solicitation: Research Program Grants are made to institutions with a major commit ment to the life sciences to support in whole or in part new biomedical research programs or centers. Emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary efforts by groups of able investigators who are addressing fundamental questions in biomedical science.
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Neufeld, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine · Eric M Shooter, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine Based on the advice of the senior consultants and the director for medical science, the initial Research Program Grants were made in August of 1985 to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and in November 1985 to the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and the California Institute of Technology.
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develop continuation/special consideration awards to previously funded Research Program Grants awardees that had exhibited outstanding progress addressing important problems in biomedical science. These awards would be for $500,000 each.
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All Markey Research Program Grants awardees received second- and additional-year funding following receipt of an annual report. The Trustees allowed a great deal of flexibility in the timing of distribution of funds, and budget lines could be moved without returning for Trust approval.
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