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Article: Modular Grants: From Puzzle to Paradigm.
- Article from:
- Journal of Research Administration
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
- Author:
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Panic! Adjustment. Relief. This sequence of reactions describes how many of us in the health science community have responded to the Modular Grants Initiative (MGI) introduced by NIH just over a year ago. Since that time, grantee institutions have had to learn to function without the familiar format and comforting details of the old NIH detailed budget page. Somehow we have made the adjustment, knowing in our hearts that there wasn't much we could do about it.
Through the MGI, the NIH has introduced the concept of "modularism," and we are in need of a new paradigm to help us understand how the investigator, the department administrator, the institutional policy ...