From: Alan_Stall@BD.com
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 17:35:08 EST
Elaine, I'll echo Howard's words at least from my experience reviewing Flow SIG grants 6 years ago. The single most important characteristic for the PI is that they have a lot of demonstrable flow experience. The more the better. They should also show that they understand the needs of the proposed shared users. A core facilities director is perfectly OK but they better have more than a couple of years experience. If the facilities director/manager doesn't have enough experience choose a PI who has the most experience. Preferably one whose research lives or dies by having the instrument to be purchased in perfect running condition. The other hint for the application is to make sure that the instrument fits the needs of the researchers included on the grant. I remember one grant where one investigator needed the instrument to sort a 1% population and they needed 1/2 million cells to do one sample in one experiment. No problem....except that the instrument they were requesting had a maximum sort rate of 300 cells /sec. That's 46 hrs of sorting per sample. It was pretty clear neither the investigator or the PI had a clue. ;-) Alan ================================ Howard Shapiro To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu> <hms@shapirol cc: ab.com> Subject: Re: SIG grants 10/13/03 04:32 PM Elaine Kunze wrote: >Is there a problem/disadvantage with having a core facilities director (no >NIH funding) as a PI on a NIH sig grant? We have a plethora of >users/participants who DO have NIH funding. There is a decided >administrative advantage in not submitting under one of our dept/college >umbrellas but instead under our Life Sciences institute (they pay for our >service contracts, etc). I haven't reviewed SIG applications for a while, but, when I was doing so, whether or not the PI had funding was less important than how knowledgeable she or he was about the instrumentation in question. The users are the ones who are required to have the funding. I remember one application being bounced because the PI, while internationally known, had no experience to speak of with flow cytometry. -Howard ********************************************************************** This message is intended only for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to the attorney-client privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute this message. If you receive this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you. ***********************************************************************
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