grant 的idea被偷, 该怎么办？

去年五月我递交了我的第一个grant proposal. It was not funded. The reviewers said the idea was good and asked more preliminary data. I got more data and applied again this year. While waiting, I found a famous guy in a big group just got funded from a different grant agency, with the almost identical title and very similar idea. I suspect he was one of my grant reviewer last year. He read my grant last year, steal my idea,  and applied his grant at the beginning of this year. Why do I suspect him? Since the disease I studied is not common and the area is very specific/rare. He is famous for studying this disease, but not in my area (no paper published). I am in the begining of my career. I have been working on this for almost two years. I don't know what to do. Should I ask the grant agency if he was one of the reviewers of my grant? or I have to lick my wound, be quite, and start from square one. Any suggestion will help.

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• 轻易别把grant 的idea告诉别人，在你还没有实力的时候 -龙少爷- ♂ (45 bytes) () 11/03/2011 postreply 03:19:52

• 咨询你申请GRANT的那个结构的有关部门调查。（同时要他们confidential） -jjmmjj- ♂ (48 bytes) () 11/03/2011 postreply 06:08:47

• 对，如果是我， -林卡- ♀ (274 bytes) () 11/03/2011 postreply 06:45:26

• talk to the chair of your dept. -smart- ♂ (66 bytes) () 11/03/2011 postreply 11:25:31

• 即使你是对的，得罪了大头，以后也不好混了 -beyondsky- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/03/2011 postreply 12:42:35