title: The State of Federal Research Funding in Genetics as Reflected by Members of the Genetics Society of America.
abstract: Scientific progress runs on the intellect, curiosity, and passion of its practitioners fueled by the research dollars of its sponsors. The concern over research funding in biology in general and genetics in particular led us to survey the membership of the Genetics Society of America for information about the federal support of genetics at the level of individual principal investigators. The results paint a mosaic of circumstances-some good, others not so good-that describes some of our present challenges with sufficient detail to suggest useful steps that could address the challenges.
authors.affiliation: President, Genetics Society of America, Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 jrine@berkeley.edu.
authors.forename: Jasper
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rine
authors.affiliation: Executive Director, Genetics Society of America, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
authors.forename: Adam P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Fagen
mesh_terms: D035082:Federal Government; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005823:Genetics / Q000191:economics*; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000191:economics; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States
keywords: NIH; NSF; funding gaps; grants; intellectual capital