December 21, 2007
NIH Calls for Big Changes to Peer Review and Grants
A committee studying ways to improve peer review and grant making at the National Institutes of Health called this month for major changes in the institutes' procedures in those areas. The proposed changes included slashing the length of grant applications and placing more weight in grant reviews on the scientific effects of the proposed research.
The working group, created by the advisory committee to Elias A. Zerhouni, the NIH's director, also suggested providing more grants for
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