The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s institutional predoctoral training grants program. This is the response submitted by the Board of Directors of the Future of Research nonprofit.

This document contains my comments to the National Institutes of Health Request for Information on “Optimizing Funding Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability of Biomedical Research”, as submitted on May 11th 2015.