One stat I found especially alarming was when we asked how much time among researchers is spent on the actual application. One response I heard one week was 50%; another week I heard a person say 80% of the time was spent simply filling out applications. I found that alarming. Why would we want to have intellectual talent like that spending time in the red tape process, in the process of showing what they want to do, and not actually investing that in the lab?
Is that something you find in Alzheimer's research too? Is there a disproportionate amount of time spent on simply filling out applications?