A few quick updates on my F31 application:
My application was assigned to a study section. This committee will meet on November 3 to review my application. I should hear about the results within 3 business days of the meeting. Fingers crossed!
I was asked to provide post-submission material, according to NOT-OD-19-083. I prepared a 1-page document listing my updated funding sources (our lab got two new grants confirmed, yay!) and my new publications.
Providing the material took about 2 hours of work (a few minutes writing the actual thing, and the rest of the time reading the instructions, gathering the information, and emailing my Authorized Organization Representative, who was the one to actually submit it). So my overall time spent on the F31 is now ~67 hours.
applications for R01s are often over 100 pages.
in 2012, 7% of NIH grant funding went to scientists 40 or younger; 57% to those aged 41-60; and 28% to those 61 and older.
imagine if startups worked like this.
jobs founded apple at 21; page and google at 25; bezos and amazon at 30.
waston and crick discovered DNA at 35 and 21. curie discovered radium at 31.
insights can occur at any age, but 7% is wrong for science and technology.
trzymam kciuki 🤞🏼