Full details in storify by @hwitteman pic.twitter.com/qf8mPhLLhd — @McGraw_LabNew funding algorithmMost scientists in Canada depend on federal research funding. And the federal funding agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), has chosen this moment to radically transform the way it hands out research money,CIHR's president Alain Beaudet said the reforms are aimed at strengthening the Canadian health research enterprise. It follows social media chatter about chaos in the midst of the largest funding process in Canadian science history. With $275 million in science funding at stake, one researcher tweeted it was like handing out money using a T-shirt gun. Gairdner award winners Tak Mak, Janet Rossant, and Nahum Sonenburg have added their names to an open letter to Health Minister Jane Philpott.

Source: CBC News June 29, 2016 00:00 UTC