The key barrier for us is really funding. We're a relatively small foundation, and we are able to provide a limited number of pilot and feasibility awards each year. To give you an example, we usually have around 60 applicants. These are individuals in their first three years of an assistant professor position, and we're able to fund anywhere between six and eight of them.
Last year was a bumper year. We were able to fund 12, because we've been building our strategy around stakeholder sponsors. These are, again, amazing investigators. To a person, they have said to us that if they had an opportunity to compete for salary support and better funding when they first came on, within the first few years they could have accelerated programs, realized their bold ideas much more quickly and been able to provide better impact with regard to their research.
This is really an issue of funding.