> I'm surprised more high-tier universities don't supply tenured PIs with dedicated grant writers, or at least easy access to them. At least at my university,

> I'm surprised more high-tier universities don't supply tenured PIs with dedicated grant writers, or at least easy access to them. At least at my university, there were a few technical writers that would help out writing grants and papers. AFAIK they were underutilized. It may vary by field and from PI to PI, but, in general, PIs wouldn't accept anyone else's writing. Everything that was penned by a technical writer was rewritten. > most of the teaching and mentoring is done by postdocs Or (best of all, in my experience) some older tenured full professors that don't care about getting funding anymore (or funding is thrown at them because they're famous). A few professors in their late 70's would spend entire afternoons helping me get something to work. That may be further evidence that the real drain on mentoring is the constant need to write grants. Sad that some really enjoyed mentoring younger people but they couldn't until they were about to retire.