NIH Panel Urges Overhaul of The Rating System for Grants

摘要

Choosing winners from among the 30,000 biomedical scientists who seek federal grants each year is a delicate task, especially when more than three-quarters of grant proposals now get rejected. But tinkering with the peer-review process by which the National Institutes of Health (NIH) picks these winners is an even more delicate proposition. An internal NIH panel has, however, just issued a set of recommendations that could result in a fundamental change in the way peer-review panels weigh scientificmerit.