I’ve been thinking about doing a year in review for the lab but it has been difficult to think about. It’s been quite a rough year. Last year I was very optimistic. We had gotten positive comments on a couple of declined NSF grants, we had just submitted 2 preprints, and I had both a new NSF grant and R01 under review. But some key grant rejections and difficulties had me reeling. Let’s see what went down in 2017:
Overall, I think my general feeling that it was a painful and difficult year came from the crushing pressure to get funding before things get dire. But going through all that’s happened, I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished and am cautiously optimistic about pending grants. Let’s hope that some of our hard work will pay off in 2018!