Funding Biomedical Research Programs Contributions of the Markey Trust (2006) / Chapter Skim
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During an interval of 15 years, the Markey Trust spent more than $500 million on four programs in the basic biomedical sciences that support the education and research of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, and senior researchers. This study addresses two questions: (1)
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Markey Charitable Trust Records archived at the Rockefeller Archive Center, examined Markey databases, solicited materials from grant recipients, and conducted site visits to a sample of grant recipients. The committee sought to understand whether the grants made to develop centers or programs resulted in program creation and development, program sustainability, research productivity, and faculty development, and positively integrated the funded program with the host institution.
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The Markey Scholars program was evaluated prospectively and is amenable to greater methodological rigor than this assessment of Research Program Grants or the previously published examination of the General Organizational Grants. This report relies on expert judgments and on the information gathered in site visits.
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