Aside from a handful of locations around the country, there are no local opportunities for the vast majority of PhD students to learn about glycobiology. A search on NIH Reporter for T32 grants with "glycobiology” reveals two grants (one NCI for cancer cell biology, one NIGMS for pharmacology). Neither of these grants are focused upon glycobiology. In fact, glycobiology is essentially never integrated into any standard ...more »

Recent changes in the biosketch do nothing to help us reviewers, and put a burden on submitters to change and learn new formats. I see no reason for this at all, the previous iteration was fine and gave all information needed.

Nothing more need be said.

How effective are current community education techniques on the various phenotypic expressions of SCD?

There is a need to develop funding mechanisms for high risk/high reward ideas which have a high potential to open new paths for investigation in important fields which would lead to new discoveries.

What strategies should NHLBI use to pursue students at the K-12 level of their education and also to encourage their scientific interests through the undergraduate and graduate levels?

The challenge I write about is the significant lack of funding for science in NHLBI. There are currently programs to increase the funding of early career investigators and many senior faculty are obtaining continuing renewal.

How will NHLBI keep those in their middle of their career years from dropping out of the biomedical workforce?

Given the difficulties of obtaining funding, especially among young investigators, NHLBI should consider public-private partnerships to increase the pool of available opportunities.

No physician or hospital has an active data management system at point of care. coding is done by third parties and not the diagnosing physician. The Test with MED-O-CARD shows that an integrated Diagnostic/Medication Algorithm allows a patient and his physicians to run and view instant data analytic. This system can be expanded scientifically without pushing the patient again aside. Patient inclusion will increase quality ...more »

How do we attract more students/trainees into fields that are not popularized by “catchy” names?

NHLBI should consider creating specific programs that encourage the participation of investigators that often do not apply to NHLBI such as kidney researchers.

What are the strategies for heart, lung, blood, sleep workforce to gain first-hand international experience in clinical research/implementation research training in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings?

What is the best way for the mentoring effort of senior investigators to be encouraged, enhanced, and supported to develop early career investigators?

We need to increase our base of T4 implementation research expertise among researchers, reviewers, and investigators.

A critical challenge will be to limit future destabilizing expansion of the number of PhD students and postdoc trainees. Because 75-80% of biomedical PhD students and postdocs now supported by NIH are funded by RO1 and other research funding, if/when research grant budget increase the number of PhD and postdoc “slots” would automatically expand--even if there is no expectation of comparable increases in demand for ...more »

Would an NIH trans-IC office of critical care research improve coordination and strategic planning across?