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Jim Woodgett

A dosage of champagne

A memorable visit to a grow-op extraordinaire

5 min readSep 18, 2023

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A dosage of champagne

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Jim Woodgett

Shiny, happy, oblivious science

The government of Canada released a budget on April 19th, 2021, the first for two years. It was, as anticipated, a high spending, deficit…

8 min readMay 7, 2021

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Jim Woodgett

Groundhog Day —an extended Winter?

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research runs two primary funding competitions a year, in the Spring and Fall. The one last Spring…

6 min readFeb 2, 2021

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Groundhog Day —an extended Winter?

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Jim Woodgett

Back in the CIHR

It’s been awhile since posting anything about the Canadian Institutes of Health Research but given there are no other distractions today…

9 min readNov 6, 2020

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Back in the CIHR

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Jim Woodgett

A Modest Proposal to CIHR

The CIHR Spring Project competition was running well. By February 5th, 2020 some 2716 applications had been registered and the deadline…

5 min readMay 12, 2020

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Jim Woodgett

Funding, funding everywhere and not a drop to drink

There’s a federal election in Canada this Fall and all of the political parties are already jockeying for attention of potential voters…

5 min readJul 22, 2019

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Funding, funding everywhere and not a drop to drink

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Jim Woodgett

Let’s Talk CIHR (part 4)

This is also the last input I intend to submit and it concerns the Project grant competition. There are two other survey topics on…

7 min readJun 11, 2019

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Let’s Talk CIHR (part 4)

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Jim Woodgett

Let’s Talk CIHR (Part 3)

So now the spotlight is on the Institutes… CIHR has 13 virtual institutes that each have a budget of ~$8 million and change and a mandate…

3 min readJun 10, 2019

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Let’s Talk CIHR (Part 3)

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Jim Woodgett

Let’s Talk CIHR (part 2)

In this episode, I’m answering the survey question, “How should CIHR spend its money?”

4 min readJun 7, 2019

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Let’s Talk CIHR (part 2)

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Let’s Talk CIHR (part 1)

Today the Canadian Institutes of Health Research launched their discussion phase for input into their next strategic plan (2020–2025). The…

7 min readMay 6, 2019

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Jim Woodgett

Jim Woodgett

Toronto researcher working on diabetes, stem cells, cancer & neuroscience. 140 chars are my own pithy but open access thought-lets.

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