Each time you submit a grant, it's almost a year down the drain.

It's a grant we get every year,

An application scoring 148 may get funded and 149 might not. (The NIH) has to draw a line where the money stops.

You can't just sit around and do nothing while you're waiting - you have to kind of piggyback on some experiments so you can generate data. But when you get it, there is no feeling like it in the world.

We have not determined any time frame ... but it certainly a terrific option that's available.

It is a drain,