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What factors are typically taken into consideration when determining how to allocate cancer research funds?
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MichaelWosnickPhD (Researcher (Verified) ) - 08 / 13 / 2012
Different organizations with different mandates may value criteria differently in allocating their research funds. For example, a new category of grant recently announced by the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (http://www.cancer.ca/Research.aspx) called an Innovation Grant placed a higher than usual value on supporting brash new ideas that were more innovative, creative and indeed more risky than usual, but only in relation to a hoped-for higher than usual impact. Other streams of research funding may place a higher priority on the ability to lead to better cancer prevention as opposed to treatment. Some organizations have a mandate to only support biomedical research and others only survivorship research and so on. Clearly the first priority for any organization then is to support research which is consistent with, and moves forward, its mission.
That said, general factors that are usually taken into account include creativity and innovation, feasibility, preliminary results, track record of the investigators, is the level of institutional support adequate, how much if any of the work has already been done or is being done elsewhere (some duplication is good, even necessary; other duplication is wasteful), how the research stacks up on the world stage, and so on. But at the heart, all organizations want to fund research that is going to make a difference. How to measure that is a very hard undertaking sometimes.
That said, general factors that are usually taken into account include creativity and innovation, feasibility, preliminary results, track record of the investigators, is the level of institutional support adequate, how much if any of the work has already been done or is being done elsewhere (some duplication is good, even necessary; other duplication is wasteful), how the research stacks up on the world stage, and so on. But at the heart, all organizations want to fund research that is going to make a difference. How to measure that is a very hard undertaking sometimes.
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