A Pilot Partnership to Find Private Support for Unfunded Applications

When I was an editor at JAMA, we often considered papers that were strong, received favorable reviews, and yet could not be published for lack of space. As it turned out, we had an option other than outright rejection: we could offer authors a user-friendly pathway by which their papers, and the reviews that went with them, could be forwarded for consideration at another journal (e.g. JAMA Internal Medicine). Later, when I came to NIH I wondered whether it was even theoretically possible for a funding agency to do something similar: arrange a way for highly meritorious but unfunded projects to find their way to willing, even eager, alternate private-sector sponsors.  Effectively, we could develop public-private partnerships to extend the system’s ability to fund high-quality science and scientists. Public-private partnerships are an important way in which we aim to extend NIH’s reach. Such partnerships take a variety of forms, such as the Accelerating Medicines Partnership which aims to transform how we identify, validate, and develop new diagnostics and treatments. Now, NIH is venturing into another kind of public-private partnership that we hope will result in the funding of additional NIH grant applications. We frequently discuss on this blog the challenges associated with receiving many more high quality research proposals than NIH can possibly fund, which is why we are interested in exploring creative ways to help fund these applications. This is why we’re support...
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