DENVER — Improvements are needed in the process to secure funding for migraine research, Rami Burstein, PhD, said at the American Headache Society annual scientific meeting.
Burstein, the John Hedley-Whyte Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, discussed challenges in obtaining grants to fund research for migraine-specific studies and submitting research proposals.
“Do we just go along with a system that, frankly, is in some ways broken?” Burstein asked.
Specifically, when writing grant proposals, experts are required to form a hypothesis when creating an