Hi Fellows, hopefully everyone has recovered from the Easter Egg coma & April jokes by now.....
Now something serious: for a commissioned opinion piece in a vanity journal, I seek to get a better understanding regarding improvement of review and funding decisions for crystallographic studies. Under assurance of full confidentiality, I would hope to hear from some of you off board comments/experiences on subjects/questions like those: Were you denied funding for a structure study because you did not have yet (a) large scale protein expression (b) first crystals (c) diffraction crystals (d) data (e) maps Did you have to 'reverse engineer' an application, i.e. you had the structure already (almost) and then write the grant? Any other peculiarities/comments you received, and what you feel would need improvement/should be addressed. Again, any comments will be confidential and will contribute to raise awareness for the special requirements of, and funding for, the significant up-front work necessary for crystallographic studies. Get it off your soul and make the world a better place. Thanks and best regards, BR ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bernhard Rupp 001 (925) 209-7429 +43 (676) 571-0536 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.ruppweb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The road to scientific serfdom is paved with Nature papers -----------------------------------------------------------------------
