As federal research funding becomes even more difficult to obtain with cuts in funding, private foundation grants, such as from the SBTF, can permit researchers to
start important research projects that can provide preliminary data for bigger grant proposals.
This collaboration is allowing patients and advocates to become more involved in guiding and developing studies and allowing researchers to overcome issues related to intellectual property that can sometimes stall or
halt important research projects.
Often, lab chiefs can be less than enthusiastic about their postdocs shifting focus away from the ever -
important research project.
An important research project in this area is The Principal Health and Wellbeing Survey which has run nationally every year since 2011.
And all U.S. - based groups whose work touches community cats — animal control agencies with a return - to - field program, a spay / neuter clinic that services community cats, a group of neighbors lobbying their local officials for pro-cat policy changes — are encouraged to participate in
this important research project.