@article{1e85bcee4a2048eba258b50e2c54ab72,
title = "Improving support for young biomedical scientists",
author = "Bruce Alberts and Tony Hyman and Pickett, \{Christopher L.\} and Shirley Tilghman and Harold Varmus",
note = "Funding Information: The DP2 award has now been used for a decade and evaluated favorably. We believe it deserves expanded use and propose that the NIH move in a step-wise manner toward providing greater NIH resources to ESIs through this mechanism. In 2016, the NIH funded 908 of the 3937 applications from ESIs for R01-type grants, and the NIH now proposes to award grants to about 1100 ESIs annually (3, 14). We suggest that the NIH move gradually toward making half of those awards (about 550) as DP2 grants. This number would greatly increase the probability that an ESI will explore new approaches to an important biological problem. The NIH Funding Information: The NIH has just completed a careful ex ternal evaluation of the first three cohorts of DP2 recipients, compared to an equivalent control group, that deemed the program a success. This grant program is supporting “research that is more innovative, risky, and impactful than research that typically is reviewed and funded using the traditional R01 program.” In addition, despite concerns that supporting ESIs to pursue highly original research topics might place their careers in jeopardy, the evaluation found that receiving a DP2 award did not hinder a young scientist{\textquoteright}s career (13). Funding Information: The increasing age of principal investigators funded by the NIH",
year = "2018",
month = may,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1126/science.aar8405",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "360",
pages = "716--718",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "6390",
}