Moving Forward with Special Council Review

August 20, 2012

It’s been three months since I discussed how, during May Advisory Council meetings, NIH would pilot a new Special Council Review process for particularly well-funded applicants. Since that time, we ran the pilot and carefully considered all the great feedback we received from Advisory Council members and staff. We are now ready to implement the final policy on Special Council Review.

Piloting the $1.5M Special Review

May 18, 2012

Back in February, I posted on our fiscal year 2013 Presidential budget request. One of the things I mentioned was an additional review that we were considering for applications from investigators that have received NIH funds of $1.5M or more in total costs.

Some Thoughts on Peer Review

July 15, 2011

There has been much talk on the peer review process in our blog comments recently. At NIH we are extremely proud of our peer review system and its acceptance as one of the premier systems of peer review around the world.