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I hate to tell you this young ‘uns, but that’s really not the norm. And all it takes is one reviewer./35
And therein lies the problem. With an 8% pay line, all it takes is one reviewer. One reviewer who doesn’t have the right knowledge base. One reviewer who simply isn’t excited about your proposal. One reviewer who says “it’s not translational enough”. /36
One reviewer who had to comment on 10 other grants. One reviewer who was taking care of a sick kid and missed some major points./37
A stressed reviewer in a room full of stressed reviewers. Panel members who feel like they don’t have the expertise to make an informed decision, so they vote down the middle, with boundaries set in part by that one reviewer. That’s all it takes./38
By the time you’ve got your reviews, it will likely be the better part of a year before you can resubmit. And wait. And hope you won the reviewer lottery. At least this time. Did I say "lottery"?/39
End rant. I'd say "Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk" but I'm pretty sure Ted Talks are shorter./end
I failed to mention that I didn’t bother to resubmit. Waste of time. Went to a new A0, which got the 12%
Ack, I didn’t resubmit the *ND*! All others are worth resubmitting
At 8% it’s even worse... all the reviewers could like it, but just not “love” it as much as even 1 other grant in their pile. Totally unsustainable.
Yup. The enthusiasm gap. Nothing you can fix or address. Just send it to another study section as is and hope for 7 or 11.
Or they blatantly ignore the PDAC data as in my case. Pretended it didn’t exist 
. We just have so much activity across the board. I guess they weren’t happy with that and didn’t want to ask questions. So, yeh. I hate grant writing. Big waste of my time.
Sorry to hear that. But I’m still a believer in grant *writing*, just not the process that follows.
I understand. I’ll just never be able to wrap my arms around the blatant bias and gate-keeping agenda.
OMG this is why the next generation is concerned about doing science
@threadreaderapp unroll this craziness please
Hello, the unroll you asked for: Thread by @HCCvPDAC: "Is the NIH grant system broken? Shockingly, I have thoughts. Thoughts from both sides of the process, grantee and review […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1162076390226681856.html …
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