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Scarpa Outlines Changes to Scientific Review at the NIH
09/23/2008
At today's faculty forum, Antonio Scarpa, MD, director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review, outlined changes to the review of grants submitted to the NIH in his presentation "Challenges and opportunities facing peer review: A vision ensuring its strategic national value" [watch the video].
Scarpa highlighted several changes to the peer-review process and indicated that these could be implemented within the next nine months. Among the changes are:
T-R01s, a new program for transformative grants, due by January 29, 2009, will be 8 pages in length and will be reviewed by an editorial board
Reduction of R grants from 25- to 12-page proposals by June 2009
Abolishment of A2 revisions by February 2009
Shortened, one-page summary statements
Changes to the scoring system
Increased efforts in the recruitment and retainment of reviewers
Introduction of the "early-state investigator" (ESI) category - with a limit on the number of years since degree for PhDs or residency for MDs - to replace "new investigator"
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