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Is the typical grant for a Nature Neuroscience study really over $1.1 million?

• Fomite 5y ago
  If we assume that most studies that get into Nature Neuroscience are NIH R01s, which have a cap before you need to start fleshing out the budget in exacting detail of $125,000 in direct costs per year, and we assume a 50% overhead rate... We get $937,500. That's not far off, and center grants, large cooperative agreements, etc. probably give the distribution a decently long tail.
• oceliker 5y ago
  Graduate student in a neuroscience lab at a tier 1 institution in the US here. $1.1 million for a grant is very normal. I cost my advisor over $100k per year in tuition and stipend, not including the costs of any equipment and reagents that I use.
  • tomrod 5y ago
    Tier 1 - dedicated channel for funding, right? Is ground-breaking neuroscience research only performed at tier 1 universities?
    • oceliker 5y ago
      > Is ground-breaking neuroscience research only performed at tier 1 universities? Absolutely not. I'm just sharing my perspective. People don't seem to realize the sheer amount of money that circulates in these institutions. A decent confocal microscope costs $500k, and core facilities aren't cheap either.
• bubblethink 5y ago
  There's a lot of funny maths with grants. It's a lot like taking money from one pocket and putting it in another. So a $1M grant is actually a fraction of that when it comes to actual money that a prof gets to use.