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Number of grant applications needed to fund research faculty: a probabilistic analysis

Author: Ashwini R. Sehgal, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 8/2018

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Obtaining external grant funding is a key milestone for research faculty. Such funds provide resources for conducting research and to meet milestones for tenure and promotion.1 Information on the proportion of grant applications funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funders is publicly available. For example, the funding rate of NIH research project grants (R01) has decreased from 31 to 20% over the last 15 years.2 Much has been written about how low funding rates create barriers to research success.3 However, it is not clear how many grant applications faculty must submit in order to have a high likelihood of being funded. …

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Title: Number of grant applications needed to fund research faculty: a probabilistic analysis
Author: Ashwini R. Sehgal, MD
Publication date: 01-08-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 8/2018
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-018-4464-0

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