Re: Did they miss the memo?
- From: phil scott <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:17:57 -0000
On Jun 19, 9:39 am, Geoff Davis <gmda...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://blog.phds.org/2007/6/19/did-they-miss-the-memo
Kansas University announced an ambitious $800 million initiative
(http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/153549.html) today to add 900,000
square feet of research space to the medical school and to hire 244
new researchers.
The plan is part of a broader effort to roughly double the medical school's research grants, which totaled $88 million in 2006, over five years and then to double them again in five more, reaching at least $340 million in grants by the end of 2016.
I wonder if the med school administrators have been reading Science
(http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/316/5823/356) lately?
KU is a bit late to the party! The NIH budget doubling inspired
similar moves by dozens of major research universities over the last
10 years; all told, schools invested $11 billion over the last decade
"expecting to recoup their investments from the NIH grants
investigators would haul in." That plan hasn't worked out so well:
there are now so many new researchers applying for NIH grants (to pay
for all those new facilities) that it's harder than ever before to
obtain funding.
To make matters worse, the NIH funded programs at unsustainable levels
during the doubling ("We didn't model [annual budget] increases below
4% a year because the tradeoffs and sacrifices that would have been
caused...were too difficult for us to deal with in the model.") and is
now having to scale the number of R01 grants way back. There are now
fewer R01s than there were before the doubling started.
I wish them well, and I hope they do a little reading (http://
blog.phds.org/nih-crisis) before they spend too many of their
millions.
http://blog.phds.org/2007/6/19/did-they-miss-the-memo
I wonder how much of future research will be done in China or India,
these graduate hundreds of thousands of spare PhD's a year willing to
work for room and board...and in labs that can be built for a tenth of
the cost in the US.... and without all the hair brain restrictions...
same for medical treatment.
there is natural pressure to do that.... if research costs so much in
the US that its slowed, then the lower cost nations will surpass US
companies who will then loose out in the market place on all fronts.
Many americans are offshoring themselves when it comes to medical
care...about 1/4 the cost in India to the best standards we have in
the US, and in many cases by the same doctors.... so the plane ticket
and hotel costs you an extra $1500. Savings can be in the tens of
thousands.
Phil Scott
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