1. NIH responds to critics on peer review.
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Wadman, Meredith
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REQUESTS for proposals (Public contracts) , *PEER review of research grant proposals , *PROFESSIONAL peer review , *EMPLOYEE reviews , *PERSONNEL management , *PERFORMANCE standards , *JOB postings - Abstract
The article reports on the changing of several controversial proposals that has been made in February by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of a year-long effort to overhaul the agency's peer-view system in the U.S. The author stated that the agency will spend at least $200 million annually over the next five years to foster groundbreaking, investigator-initiated research as part of the Enhancing Peer Review. Moreover, one of the controversial proposals shelved by the agency is the recommendation that all applications will be treated as new, without reviewer access to prior reviews.
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- 2008
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