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Abstract

The new, large-scale research centers started by the Roadmap initiative created new research opportunities. The purpose of many of them, in fact, is to provide resources to the scientific community that can be exploited to enable new research ideas and directions. Research grants are also available for investigators to contribute to many of these centers. The NIH is now actively soliciting ideas for new Roadmap projects, so if you have an opinion on the most useful types of projects to fund, let them know. However, just complaining about big science is not useful. The success of large, high profile NIH projects is the best way to get increased funding for all of NIH and to accelerate scientific advances in biology in the process.