by Andrew Su | Aug 2, 2016 | NIH, policy
Several months ago, NIGMS released a RFI on The Need for and Support of Research Resources for the Biomedical Research Community. Our group has quite a bit of experience building information-based research resources (through grants generously awarded by NIGMS). So...
by bgood | Mar 21, 2014 | breast cancer, crowdsourcing, games, genegames, grant, gwaps, machine learning, NIH, r21, sulab, thecure
Last November, Andrew and I submitted an R21 proposal for consideration by the NIH. Today, we received the summary statement. Since a lot of work went into writing it, I feel compelled to share it regardless of whether its ever funded (which currently...
by Andrew Su | Jul 30, 2013 | BioGPS, Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, grant, NIH, usage stats
This is the first blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. First, let’s recap a bit of history on our Gene Wiki project. We originally proposed the Gene Wiki as one aim of our NIH grant to develop BioGPS, an crowdsourced online portal...
by Andrew Su | Jul 29, 2013 | Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, grant, NIH
My group recently submitted a grant proposal to the NIH (a “competing renewal”) to continue our work developing the Gene Wiki. In case you haven’t been following, the goal of the Gene Wiki is to create a collaboratively-written, community-reviewed,...
by bgood | Jun 18, 2012 | games, grant, gwaps, NIH, sulab
Dear Internet,A penny for your thoughts on the grant proposal accessible here. If you were on the committee that decided the fate of this proposal (and in a very real way, its authors), what would you say? Go jump in a lake? This is fantastic?...