CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings December 23, 2014
Youre going to get funded. What is the chance the grant is going to get funded . Its about one in six. Traditionally it has been one in three. In the Cancer Institute it is one in 10. Its even lower. You might say we were funding too much stuff before, and we werent putting a tight enough filter on this. The filter is rigorous peer review by experts in the field. Went back and looked. This was in Heart Disease research, but i imagine its true across the board. I can 2001 we were funding a third of the grants back in 2000 when we were funding a third of the grants. Does a grant in the 10th perc...