[ftxbro]

The way that grants and funding work right now, from what I've seen, is incompatible with this kind of thing. It's by definition a maintenance project. They do not want to fund maintenance projects that go past the timeline of the grant like five years or whatever. No PI is going to win the Nobel prize for making some kind of janitorial service for scientists. Also the project has zero chance of curing cancer by itself. Although the PI who eventually cures every cancer might use it, they will be PI on other grants not that grant.