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The hunt for the lesser-known funding source

Scientists can use search skills and solid connections to find grants from foreign governments, foundations and crowdfunding.
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When infectious-disease epidemiologist Joshua Mendelsohn accepted a job at Pace University in New York City in 2015, he knew that the odds of securing a large government research grant were stacked against him. Funding success rates are notoriously low at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) — especially for those under 40, as Mendelsohn was at the time. And Pace has tended to be more focused on teaching than on research, with few resources with which to pursue large federal grants.

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Nature 570, 127-129 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01734-1

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