NIH Announces Updated Criteria for Evaluating Research Grant Applications
Notice Number: NOT-OD-05-002
Key Dates
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov/)
Background
The goal of the NIH Roadmap is to accelerate and strengthen biomedical research enterprise. During consultation with the extramural scientific community that led to the development of the NIH Roadmap process, it was frequently mentioned that the criteria used to evaluate research grant applications were not placing appropriate emphasis on some important types of biomedical research (see http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/). The Roadmap Trans-NIH Clinical Research Workforce Committee proposed a modification of the NIH Peer Review Criteria for investigator-initiated research grant applications that would better accommodate interdisciplinary, translational, and clinical projects. The updated review criteria were adopted at the August 5, 2004 meeting of the Directors of the NIH Institutes and Centers. According to the schedule shown below, the updated criteria will replace the review criteria adopted on June 27,1997 (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not97-010.html).
Implementation
These updated review criteria will be effective for research grant applications received on or after January 10, 2005 that fall into the following categories:
Investigator initiated research grant applications;
Investigator initiated research grant applications submitted in response Program Announcements (PAs) whether published before or after this announcement;
Solicited research grant applications submitted in response to Requests for Applications (RFAs) will continue to use the review criteria described in the RFA.
Additional information at: NIH Link