Jay Bhattacharya on funding replication studies at scale: recommends

Bhattacharya recommends funding replication studies at scale — most concretely through R3PEATS, the five-year, roughly $174 million NIH program he launched in a September 2026 Science editorial to fund scientists to reproduce or replicate others’ published findings. According to Inside Higher Ed’s September 2026 coverage, the program covers both direct and conceptual replication, with a grassroots track (RFA-RM-28-011 — $5.6 million across 16 awards) for individual labs. His stated reasoning, presented in his January 2026 “Gold Standard Science” briefing to the NIH Council of Councils and the editorial itself, is that the research system structurally under-rewards confirmation work, so dedicated money is needed to correct the attention imbalance toward novel results.

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