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Funding: Interdisciplinary challenges

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Scientific analysis of funding support suggests that interdisciplinary research proposals are less successful than those focused on single disciplines. This has negative implications for the development of interdisciplinary research such as microbiology, and may hinder our ability to solve society's grand challenges.

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Blainey, P. Funding: Interdisciplinary challenges. Nat Microbiol 1, 16118 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.118

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