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DOE to Award $99 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.
Funding Knowledgebases: Towards a Sustainable Funding Model for the UniProt Use Case
Funding Knowledgebases: Towards a Sustainable Funding Model for the UniProt Use Case
Data resources can be very expensive, especially those with a high added value as the expert-curated knowledgebases.
Grant Applications in Arts and Humanities Research
Topic modelling of grant applications, unveiling an innovative and richer understanding of the research activity in these disciplines.
Internal Grant Proposal Review Processes Demonstrates Major Return on Investment
Internal Grant Proposal Review Processes Demonstrates Major Return on Investment
New study suggests a major return on investment for institutions that help their researchers write better grants.
Science holds the key to a more sustainable farm future
As work on 2018 farm bill picks up pace, remember money spent on agricultural science is money well spent.

Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective
Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective
The Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation share a common vision for maximizing the value of data that are generated through the trials they fund.
Bill Gates Makes $100 Million Personal Investment to Fight Alzheimer's
Gates to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.
In the Trump Era, Biologists on the Cutting Edge Try to Keep a Low Profile
In the Trump Era, Biologists on the Cutting Edge Try to Keep a Low Profile
Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.

NIH Awards to Test Ways to Store, Access, Share, and Compute on Biomedical Data in the Cloud
NIH Awards to Test Ways to Store, Access, Share, and Compute on Biomedical Data in the Cloud
NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase to seek best practices for developing and managing a data commons.
If Funders and Libraries Subscribed to Open Access
Considerations of open access models that can work across disciplines. The case of ELife, PLoS, and BioOne.
Alibaba Is Plowing $15 Billion into R&D with 7 New Research Labs
Alibaba wants to compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The advisory board includes Harvard's geneticist George Church and others.

European Commission to Invest €30 Billion in New Solutions for Societal Challenges and Breakthrough Innovation
Key Legislator Tells Trump Officials to Back off on Proposed Overhead Spending Cap for NIH
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.
Researchers Struggle to Fend off Deepening Budget Cuts
Federal spending on science has dropped by half in 5 years.
