RCR: Planning Your NIH Application for the Best Review Possible

Presented by Michelle Kienholz, CTSI

Understanding Your Second NIH Audience: Peer Reviewers   

When planning and preparing an NIH grant application of any type, your focus must be on the intended readers: your peers on the Scientific Review Group (study section). This workshop will review NIH tools to use in identifying the best review group(s) for your science – a critical task in planning and preparing any NIH grant application. We will then go through the new review framework and criteria for research project grants, which includes significant changes from the 5-criteria framework still used for most other activity codes. The goal is to help applicants prepare competitive applications that give the right reviewers the right information to complete an informed review. Finding the right Institute, funding opportunity, and program officer was covered separately in NIH Resources & Personnel that Can Help You Get Funded on January 22. Strategies for drafting and refining the research narrative and what happens after submission are discussed in Developing your NIH Aims & Research Strategy on February 11. Bring questions you might have about the peer review process and new NIH review framework. (subject matter: peer review)