[HN Gopher] Covid-19 Fast Grants recipients
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Covid-19 Fast Grants recipients
Author : jseliger
Score : 47 points
Date : 2020-04-19 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (fastgrants.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (fastgrants.org)
| willswire wrote:
| My university also received a RAPID grant -
| https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/march/covid-research-superc...
| zuhayeer wrote:
| Cool to see Dr. Julia Schaletzky and her research work listed,
| she also did a pretty informative podcast on the development of a
| vaccine a few weeks ago https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-
| daily/covid-19-coronavirus-v...
| KenoFischer wrote:
| Glad to see Dr. Patrick Hsu
| (https://bioeng.berkeley.edu/faculty/patrick-hsu) among the
| recipients. He is one of the smartest and most impressive people
| I know, so at least from my limited vantage point, this money is
| going to the right people :).
| elric wrote:
| This is a great initiative, and it's heart warming to see that
| the list is getting quite long. Most of these go far beyond my
| level of understanding, so I'm guessing I'm not the target
| audience. Nevertheless, it would be great if they could a one or
| two line elevator pitch-style "why this is important" section to
| each recipient's blurb.
| bfdm wrote:
| Proud to see a number of Canadian researchers and institutions on
| that list. I wish them all success in their work on this.
| curiousgal wrote:
| Surprised to see researchers from big name universities. I was
| under the impression that those universities took good care of
| their researchers.
| jseliger wrote:
| _I was under the impression that those universities took good
| care of their researchers._
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| I'm under the impression that most university researchers's
| reputation, labs, and tenure cases rely heavily on grants, and
| that most university "scientists" today are really grant
| writers and grant managers.
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| That might be a little too cynical a take, but I've heard
| variations of it enough times to take the view pretty
| seriously.
| dev_tty01 wrote:
| Not cynical at all. Speaking from experience, it is just
| reality. They are still scientists, but in practice it is
| more like the technical lead who also does the fundraising.
| At least in the US, universities do not take "good care" of
| their researchers. Researchers take care of the university.
| Direct funding and overhead income from grants is super
| important to university budgets.
| dannykwells wrote:
| Um, the better the university the _more_ money you have to
| bring in, not less. Stanford and the like have minimums for
| faculty to bring in money.
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| They do take good care of them, though, by giving them good lab
| space, great grad students, modern cores etc.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| Modern chores?
| dannykwells wrote:
| Fixed!!
| williesleg wrote:
| Follow the money. This will not be good.
| lbeltrame wrote:
| Nice to see Dr.Netea there. I had the opportunity to work with
| him and his team in a collaboration ten years ago, when studying
| the pathways leading to antigen presenting cells activation.
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| On the topic of the immune system he certainly knows his
| quarters.
| dannykwells wrote:
| I'm part of one of these! Very exciting. Overall fastgrants is a
| great organization. 48 hour turnaround is incredible and could be
| paradigm shifting for getting science done. Thanks pc and
| everyone else for the chance to get some science done!
| pc wrote:
| Thank you for your work on Covid-19!
| bobosha wrote:
| This makes me hopeful for the future, the next decade is likely
| to be amazing for healthcare research.
|
| Hopefully some good comes out of this unfolding tragedy and
| drives the next generation to critical issues like healthcare &
| climate change than building yet another photo/video sharing app.
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