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Highlights from Healthcare Unbound: The Power of Open Networks to Drive Needed Innovation

[This is a guest post by Ryan Frederick, founder and Principal of Point Forward Solutions, a strategic consulting and financial advisory firm dedicated to Seniors Housing & Care and related Health Care Services industries. Prior to founding Point Forward Solutions, Ryan was Senior Vice President at Erickson Living. Ryan can be reached at rfrederick@pointforwardsol.com and @ryanefrederick.] This past week San Francisco [...]

Snip: Funding crisis hits US ageing research : Nature News

“I don’t put any grants into NIA now because their funding line is so low it’s almost impossible to get funded,” says Duff. Duff’s situation reflects a crisis that is gripping researchers who are funded by the US$1.1‑billion ageing institute in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2010, a researcher submitting a grant application for any single deadline [...]