Response:More Money and Less Time!

摘要

Many scientists and NIH administrators are convinced that the NIH grant review process, which was not designed for the current large number of applications and the concomitant low success rates, needs some urgent adjustments to save money and time for both applicants and reviewers. My recent Correspondence in Cell (Pagano, 2006) was not intended to provide a magic solution for fixing the NIH grant review process. Rather, its purpose was to stimulate a constructive discussion. Therefore, it is not my intention to defend my proposal as if it were the only solution.