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Recommendations to: 

Federal Agencies 
 

• Create Targeted Grant Programs for Early-Career Faculty
• Create Seed Funding Programs for Early-Career Faculty
• Pay Special Attention to Early-Career Faculty in Regular Grant Programs
• Develop Supportive Polices for Primary Caregivers
• Explore Targeted Grant Mechanisms and Policies to Foster Potentially Transformative Research
• Adopt Funding Mechanisms and Policies That Nurture Transformative Research in All Award Programs
• Strengthen Grant Review Processes
• Invest in Program Officers
• Establish New Programs Only if They Have Critical Mass
• Track Demographics on a Government-Wide Basis

Universities 
 

• Actively Mentor Early-Career Scientists
• Create Seed Funding Programs for Early-Career Faculty
• Reconsider Promotion and Tenure Policies
• Address the Needs of Primary Caregivers and Childbearing Needs
• Accept Institutional Responsibility for a Greater Portion of Faculty Salaries
• In Building New Facilities, Shoulder a Larger Share of the Financial Cost
• Spread the Wealth: Ensure a Greater Number of New Investigators by Capping the Number of Start-up and First Awards to a Single Individual