NIH Director Announces Enhancements to Peer Review

June 10, 2008 at 1:32 pm · Filed under General

For Immediate Release, Friday, June 6, 2008

“National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., announced today at the 96^th Meeting of the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) critical changes to enhance and improve the NIH peer review system. This marks the end of a year-long effort to determine ways to further enrich the process. …. There was a remarkable response to the director’s call-to-action by both the internal and external NIH communities. The initiatives presented to the ACD by Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) and co-chair of the two peer review working groups, reflect NIH’s response to thousands of comments, opinions, and criticisms received throughout the year. Taken together, these proposals bring to fruition the original charge, “to fund the best science, by the best scientists, with the least administrative burden.”…

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FYI: NIH Roadmap Update

June 10, 2008 at 1:25 pm · Filed under General

“The NIH Roadmap is intended to be an “incubator space” for programs that, due to their cross-cutting relevance and/or complexity, warrant concerted attention from NIH as a whole. Consistent with its “incubator” function, the Roadmap stimulates research or the development of research resources with the expectation that the programs will either be completed within a 5–10 year timeframe or will transition out of the “incubator space” as they become integral to Institutes and Center’s (IC) activities.”  For information on NIH’s roadmap initiatives see: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/commonfundupdate.asp