Allison Fitzgerald: The time between starting an R00 award and receiving a major NIH award was significantly longer for women

Allison Fitzgerald, Resident Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, shared the following post by bioRxiv on Twitter, adding the following:

“Must read:

The time between starting an R00 award and receiving a major NIH award was significantly longer for women, those who remained at their home institution, and those hired by an institution that was not one of the top 25 NIH-funded. Shockingly, no K99 awardees at an HBCU”

Quoting bioRxiv:

“Analysis of NIH K99/R00 Awards and the Career Progression of Awardees”

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Source: Allison Fitzgerald/Twitter and bioRxiv/Twitter