This is cool: @HHMIJanelia is holding an open competition for a new $250M research initiative in the life sciences, basically building a whole new division from scratch: https://www.janelia.org/our-research/competition/opportunity …
@michael_nielsen, does this count as a novel scientific institution by your lights?
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Very interesting! Looks like effectively an invitation to de novo create a new research division. That really is different to a lot of classic moves; eg most big new centers use mostly pre-existing personnel.
It's unclear that the resulting division will be all that unusual (in this specific case), but just using this unusual initialization/booting up procedure seems noteworthy.
