NIH Funding of Researchers in Surgery: Decreased Career Development Awards Over Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Mary Smithson ◽  
M. Chandler McLeod ◽  
Dan I. Chu ◽  
Greg Kennedy ◽  
Melanie Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Nih Funding ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals International trends in grant and fellowship funding awarded to women in neurosurgery

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. E5
Author(s):  
Kimberly Wang ◽  
Archis R. Bhandarkar ◽  
Megan M. J. Bauman ◽  
Cecile Riviere-Cazaux ◽  
Juliana Rotter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Grant Funding ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Trends ◽  
The Us ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Nih Funding ◽  
Important Building Block ◽  
Over Time

OBJECTIVEMetric tracking of grant funding over time for academic neurosurgeons sorted by gender informs the current climate of career development internationally for women in neurosurgery.METHODSMultivariate linear trend analysis of grant funding awarded to neurosurgeons in the NIH and World Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) was performed. Traveling fellowships for international neurosurgery residents sponsored by the AANS and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) were also analyzed.RESULTSWithin the US, funding awarded to female neurosurgeons has remained static from 2009 to 2019 after adjusting for inflation and overall trends in NIH funding (β = −$0.3 million per year, p = 0.16). Internationally, female neurosurgeons represented 21.7% (n = 5) of project leads for World RePORTER grants. Traveling fellowships are also an important building block for young international female neurosurgeons, of which 7.4% (n = 2) of AANS international traveling fellowships and 19.4% (n = 7) of AANS/CNS pediatrics international traveling fellowships are women.CONCLUSIONSOver the past decade, funding has increased in neurosurgery without a concordant increase in funding awarded to women. Recognition of this trend is essential to focus efforts on research and career development opportunities for women in neurosurgery. Worldwide, female neurosurgeons head one-fifth of the funded project leads and constitute a minority of international traveling fellowships awarded by organized neurosurgery.

Creation of a comprehensive training and career development approach to increase the number of neurosurgeons supported by National Institutes of Health funding

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Russell R. Lonser ◽  
Luke G. F. Smith ◽  
Michael Tennekoon ◽  
Kavon P. Rezai-Zadeh ◽  
Jeffrey G. Ojemann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Early Career ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Grant Support ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Comprehensive Programs ◽  
Nih Funding

OBJECTIVETo increase the number of independent National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funded neurosurgeons and to enhance neurosurgery research, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) developed two national comprehensive programs (R25 [established 2009] for residents/fellows and K12 [2013] for early-career neurosurgical faculty) in consultation with neurosurgical leaders and academic departments to support in-training and early-career neurosurgeons. The authors assessed the effectiveness of these NINDS-initiated programs to increase the number of independent NIH-funded neurosurgeon-scientists and grow NIH neurosurgery research funding.METHODSNIH funding data for faculty and clinical department funding were derived from the NIH, academic departments, and Blue Ridge Institute of Medical Research databases from 2006 to 2019.RESULTSBetween 2009 and 2019, the NINDS R25 funded 87 neurosurgical residents. Fifty-three (61%) have completed the award and training, and 39 (74%) are in academic practice. Compared to neurosurgeons who did not receive R25 funding, R25 awardees were twice as successful (64% vs 31%) in obtaining K-series awards and received the K-series award in a significantly shorter period of time after training (25.2 ± 10.1 months vs 53.9 ± 23.0 months; p < 0.004). Between 2013 and 2019, the NINDS K12 has supported 19 neurosurgeons. Thirteen (68%) have finished their K12 support and all (100%) have applied for federal funding. Eleven (85%) have obtained major individual NIH grant support. Since the establishment of these two programs, the number of unique neurosurgeons supported by either individual (R01 or DP-series) or collaborative (U- or P-series) NIH grants increased from 36 to 82 (a 2.3-fold increase). Overall, NIH funding to clinical neurological surgery departments between 2006 and 2019 increased from $66.9 million to $157.3 million (a 2.2-fold increase).CONCLUSIONSTargeted research education and career development programs initiated by the NINDS led to a rapid and dramatic increase in the number of NIH-funded neurosurgeon-scientists and total NIH neurosurgery department funding.

scholarly journals Inequalities in the Distribution of National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant Funding

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S Lauer ◽  
Deepshikha Roychowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Principal Investigators ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nih Funding ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Health Research Project

Previous reports have described worsening inequalities of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of principal investigators. We analyzed data through the end of Fiscal Year 2020, confirming worsening inequalities beginning at the time of the NIH budget doubling (1998-2003), but finding that trends have reversed over the past 3 years. We also find that career-stage trends have stabilized, with equivalent proportions of early-, mid-, and late-career investigators funded from 2017 to 2020. Women continue to constitute a greater proportion of funded principal investigators, though not at parity. Analyses of funding inequalities over time show that inequalities have consistently been greater within groups (i.e., within groups by career stage, gender, race, and degree) than between groups.

scholarly journals POSTCAREER OF RUSSIAN GOVERNORS 1991‒2020: MAIN DIRECTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Artem Flyagin ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
Over Time

The author collected and analyzed the biographies of all heads of the Russian regions who held their posts from 1991 to 2020. The main focus of this work was the careers of former heads of regions after their end of term. Information about the post-career of regional heads was found in 268 cases. The most popular directions of the post-governor career were federal government and business. Regional administration is much less popular, and local administration are almost not represented. In most cases, the governorship was a springboard in one's career. An analysis of changes in the main directions of post-career development over time showed a clear reflection of the consequences of the policy of “recentralization”: the marginalization of regional and local politics and the focus of former governors on the transition to central government are traced. In addition, the high popularity of business structures prompts the conclusion about plutocratization of the regional level of power.

scholarly journals The Increasing Importance of Fellowships and Career Development Awards in the Careers of Early-Stage Biomedical Academic Researchers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L. Pickett
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Common Component ◽  
Excessive Competition ◽  
Faculty Positions ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Academic Faculty ◽  
Training Position ◽  
Nih Funding ◽  
First Time

AbstractExcessive competition for biomedical faculty positions has ratcheted up the need to accumulate some mix of high-quality publications and prestigious grants to move from a training position to university faculty. How universities value each of these attributes when considering faculty candidates is critical for understanding what is needed to succeed as academic faculty. In this study, I analyzed publicly available NIH grant information to determine the grants first-time R01 (FTR01) awardees held during their training period. Increases in the percentage of the FTR01 population that held a training award demonstrate these awards are becoming a more common component of a faculty candidate’s resume. The increase was largely due to an expansion of NIH K-series career development awards between 2000 and 2017. FTR01 awardees with a K01, K08, K23, or K99 award were overrepresented in a subset of institutions, whereas FTR01 awardees with F32 fellowships and those with no training award were evenly distributed across institutions. Finally, training awardees from top institutions were overrepresented in the faculty of the majority of institutions, echoing data from other fields where a select few institutions supply an overwhelming majority of the faculty for the rest of the field. These data give important insight into how trainees compete for NIH funding and faculty positions and how institutions prefer those with or without training awards.

Examining Urban Students’ Constructions of a STEM/Career Development Intervention Over Time

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Blustein ◽  
Michael Barnett ◽  
Sheron Mark ◽  
Mark Depot ◽  
Meghan Lovering ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Urban Students ◽  
Development Intervention ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (22) ◽  
pp. 12011-12016
Author(s):  
Mikko Packalen ◽  
Jay Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Basic Science ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Clinical Knowledge ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Nih Funding ◽  
Over Time

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plays a critical role in funding scientific endeavors in biomedicine. Funding innovative science is an essential element of the NIH’s mission, but many have questioned the NIH’s ability to fulfill this aim. Based on an analysis of a comprehensive corpus of published biomedical research articles, we measure whether the NIH succeeds in funding work with novel ideas, which we term edge science. We find that edge science is more often NIH funded than less novel science, but with a delay. Papers that build on very recent ideas are NIH funded less often than are papers that build on ideas that have had a chance to mature for at least 7 y. We have three further findings. First, the tendency to fund edge science is mostly limited to basic science. Papers that build on novel clinical ideas are not more often NIH funded than are papers that build on well-established clinical knowledge. Second, novel papers tend to be NIH funded more often because there are more NIH-funded papers in innovative areas of investigation, rather than because the NIH funds innovative papers within research areas. Third, the NIH’s tendency to have funded papers that build on the most recent advances has declined over time. In this regard, NIH funding has become more conservative despite initiatives to increase funding for innovative projects. Given our focus on published papers, the results reflect both the funding preferences of the NIH and the composition of the applications it receives.

scholarly journals The Neurosurgeon-Scientists National Institutes of Health Funding Trends

Neurosurgery ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim ReFaey ◽  
Shashwat Tripathi ◽  
William D Freeman ◽  
Hugo Guerrero-Cazares ◽  
James Meschia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Research Training ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Health Funding ◽  
Nih Funding ◽  
Physician Scientists ◽  
Over Time

Abstract INTRODUCTION Formal training for physician-scientists is needed more than ever in the field of neurosurgery for the good of the patients and the field. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding is considered as the most prestigious yet competitive research funding to obtain. This study was performed to determine whether a correlation exists between bibliometrics and NIH funding data among academic neurosurgeons and compare the trends in neurosurgery NIH funding to practicing neurosurgeons and non-neurosurgeons between 1993 to 2017. METHODS Grants to neurosurgery were extracted from the NIH Reporter. Neurosurgery data from 1993 to 2017 were collected; the following parameters were obtained: primary investigators (PIs), grant type, and total funding. Regression models compared NIH funding over time. RESULTS After adjusting for inflation (base year 1993), while funding to both practicing neurosurgeons (P < .00001, R2 = 0.70) and non-neurosurgeons (P < .00001, R2 = 0.61) has been increasing, the percentage of neurosurgery NIH funding going to neurosurgeons (P < .1, R2 = 0.12) is steadily decreasing. Additionally, a total of 542 men were awarded NIH neurosurgery grants compared to 174 women (P < .000001), and the men had a significantly higher average funding per scientist (P < .01). Of the grants awarded to neurosurgery, 30% (213/716) of the awardees were neurosurgeons, and 29% (424/1464) of the awarded grants went to neurosurgeons. There was a rise in active R01 grants 56.4% (207/367) among total active awarded neurosurgery grants, in comparison to the historically awarded R01 rate of 38.2%. CONCLUSION The low percentage of new neurosurgeons awarded NIH grants coupled with the lack of formalized training in residency has the potential to worsen the future pipeline for neurosurgeon-scientists. Future residency programs need to incorporate formalized research training and incentives into training despite escalating economic pressures on departments to see more and more patients.

scholarly journals Academic Tax Articles 1980-2000: Tax Faculty Productivity Analyses

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Hutchison ◽  
Craig G. White
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Faculty Productivity ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Accounting Faculty ◽  
Publication Rates ◽  
Doctoral Institutions ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Tax Accounting

This study extends knowledge pertaining to accounting research productivity in taxation and provides data that may be useful for faculty career development or assessment purposes by administrators.  The authors develop an academic tax article database that contains research from 1980 through 2000 and use it to review tax faculty publication quantity and timing over a 20-year career window for both those at doctoral and non-doctoral granting institutions.  Results indicate that publication rates tend to spike within the first five years in academia for faculty at both doctoral and non-doctoral institutions and trail off from that point to year +20.  Further, faculty at doctoral schools published almost twice as many academic tax articles as faculty at non-doctoral institutions.  Relative publication differences between faculty at the two school types remain constant over time.  Additional insights include that non-tax accounting faculty contributed to almost half of all academic tax articles in the study, most faculty retain the tax designation during the first 20 years of their career, movement to doctoral schools by tax faculty happens early in a career, and in contrast, movement from doctoral schools happens later in academia.

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