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Name: Sergio Grinstein on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Philippe Roux on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ivan George Fantus on Dec 7, 2010Comments: Absolutely critical to maintain the strong investigator-initiated individual operating grants program. It is the foundation upon which all other funding and research support is based, so that the entire research and innovation strategy in biomedicine will be wasted and fall apart without it, form CRCs to CFIs.Flag
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Name: Andrew Spence on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: John Brumell on Dec 7, 2010Comments: This does not take into account the erosion of funding for grants that are awarded. Real grant 'purchasing power' has dropped for a number of reasons. Even those lucky individuals that are awarded funding struggle to keep up in competitive research fields.Flag
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Name: Emanuel Escher on Dec 7, 2010Comments: In fact, the petition text is an understatement, It is a long time ago that proposals in the very good range are not funded any more and only those in the excellent or even outsatnding ranges received any funds. The actual trend is towards funding of "outstanding" rated grants only (4,5)and close to a lottery game. The actual trend of success rate attrition will result in a 10% success rate in a year and 0% in about four years...RIP.Flag
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Name: Martine Raymond on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: David Hipfner on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul Fernyhough on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Don Moerman on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul Goodyer on Dec 7, 2010Comments: Alternative mechanisms to launch new investigators and stablize productive labs should be sought. This can no longer be accomplished by asking peers to choose among essentially indistinguishable excellent grants.Flag
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Name: Stefan Taubert on Dec 7, 2010Comments: I strongly support the notion that the individual grants program must be enhanced. It is the single most important program for individual investigators to implement their own original research ideas in Canada.Flag
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Name: Arnold Kristof on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Stephen Gee on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Catharine Rankin on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Luc Sabourin on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kiran Soma on Dec 7, 2010Comments: Funding of CIHR Operating Grants is absolutely critical to maintain Canadian biomedical research at the leading edge of the international research community. It creates jobs in the short-term (graduate students and research staff) and the long-term (future faculty members and biotech companies etc).Flag
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Name: Graciela Pineyro on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Peter Smith on Dec 7, 2010Comments: I strongly support the petition, but it's not quite accurate on the committee I sit on excellent and outstanding grants are not getting funded!Flag
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Name: Michel Leroux on Dec 7, 2010Comments: I am deeply troubled by the state of funding in Canada for Biomedical research. I believe that everyone in our prosperous country would agree that improving health care through research is a critical endeavour that must be nourished, rather than extinguished. Having been on numerous CIHR grant review panels, I am also of the opinion that a much too large proportion of very good—and even excellent—grants are not funded. Furthermore, I also agree that otherwise excellent-to-outstanding grants are not funded because their scores are lowered even to a small degree because of raised concerns that should be otherwise insubstantial. In brief, we need to work towards having a cut off of 20% or more for our CIHR biomedical research funding panels. Regards, Michel Leroux Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Simon Fraser UniversityFlag
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Name: Dixie Mager on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: JJ Leddy on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kathryn Todd on Dec 7, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Catherine Kudo on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Benjamin Kwok on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Nathalie Bédard on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anne-Noel Samaha on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Xiaoquan Xiong on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jean-Philippe Gratton on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Heather Wilson on Dec 8, 2010Comments: Please increase the % of successful applicants. Give us a chance to succeed.Flag
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Name: Eric Racine on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul Clarke on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lisa on Dec 8, 2010Comments: The situation is dire. Thousands of faculty members across Canada, who are hired to teach students and to do important biomedical research, are unable to obtain funding to do the research they were hired to do. This situation is unsustainable. If Canada wants its university classes to be taught by experts in the field, it must allow us to do our work by funding our research. Or it should stop hiring PhDs to teach courses, allow courses to be taught by lecturers, many who have had no hands-on experience with their subjects, and only hire an elite core of researchers.Flag
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Name: Claude Lazure on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Yves Langelier on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: David Lohnes on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 8, 2010Comments: It's not just the 15% success rate that is a problem, it's the entire peer review system of the CIHR that no longer works. One good starting point would be to make sure that research collaborators cannot review each other's grants.Flag
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Name: Woong-Kyung Suh on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Bhagwati Gupta on Dec 8, 2010Comments: The current CIHR operating grant situation is really bad and needs urgent attention. It is not only slowing down research progress but also demoralizing young investigators. There needs to be a mechanism to increase success rate of new applicants who are trying to establish themselves in Canada. In the absence of funding it is not possible to demonstrate high level of productivity and remain competitive.Flag
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Name: Normand Marceau on Dec 8, 2010Comments: This is vital for the improvement of Health Research and Canadians health.Flag
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Name: Juan Rivera on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Réjean Lapointe on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Amine Nourani on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Edith Giasson on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Nathalie Lamarche-Vane on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Yaoming Yang, MD, PhD on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Gary Brouhard on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ursula Stochaj on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Flag