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New Research Funding Pathway

Institutional structure/budgets/etc.

2025 has been really hard with lots of labs losing their funding. Even in a good year though we waste a third of our time writing grant proposals. My colleagues are almost never working on what they actually want to study - and instead it's always something "safe" and less imaginative that the NIH or NSF is willing to fund.

I wanted to share a website called Catalyze I've used that allows researchers to share their proposals and directly raise funding online from the public rather than just through private applications to agencies or foundations.

URL: www.Catalyzernd.com

Posted Dec 29, 2025, 7:58 PM UTC

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