Follow-Up Career Stage Analyses of Applications Submitted During the Pandemic (Part 6)

Our series of blog posts on the distributions of gender and race of designated principal investigators (PIs) of R01 and RPG applications submitted before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic continues today. When looking back, posts from April 2022, October 2021, June 2021, and July 2020 did not show any particularly marked differences in the high-level demographics of designated PIs during the course of the pandemic. In response to reader comments, we looked at applications broken down by career stage in June 2022. It was interesting to notice slowly increasing trends in the proportions of early stage investigator (ESI) applications submitted by women and by underrepresented minorities URMs. We repeat these career stage analyses here, specifically focusing on applications received between January 8 and September 7 in six consecutive years. R01-equivalent applications received between January 8 and May 7 (Table 1) and May 8 and September 7 (Table 2) are shown below according to career stage. The data include both Type 1 new applications (de novo) and Type 2 renewal applications. The number of applications received in both time frames in 2022 was less than 2021, potentially hinting that there may be a return to pre-pandemic application levels and more investigators being back in a physical workspace. The proportion of applications designating ESI PIs has trended upwards in the past six years, but the opposite has happened for other New Investigators who are not ESIs....
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Tags: blog Open Mike applications COVID-19 Funding data Source Type: funding