Sentences with phrase «grant review process»

Peer reviewers are an invaluable and critical component of the non-formula discretionary grant review process.

Provide guidance and recommendation to federal agencies and applicants related to grant review process.

The Patent Office promises that the whole Post Grant Review process will take no more than one year (after first taking no more than 3 months to decide whether to approve the Petition and commence the process).

Jen's proposal caught the attention of Creative Capital's application evaluators and was selected as a «wild card» in the grant review process.

Requests for proposals (RFPs) are categorized by the particular grant review process (i.e., Winn Feline Foundation review, Miller Trust review, or a specifically focused grant review).

Schools were selected based on a competitive grant review process.

High schools were selected based on a competitive grant review process.

Many NIH institutes provide on their Web sites detailed information to help new investigators understand the grant review process and improve their grant writing skills.

The panel found that the existing grant review process, in which NHP studies undergo extra scrutiny by NC3Rs, generally works: Most research was justified in its use of NHPs and led to peer - reviewed publications.

In the NIH's usual grant review process, applicants» names and ethnicities are removed, but in some cases it's still possible to guess who's applying.

Also yesterday, the board appointed a compliance officer — a new position — to oversee its grant review processes.

The Environmental team helps to coordinate implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) across the Department, including in the TIGER and FASTLANE grant review processes.

Not exact matches

And whatever the shortcomings of our foreign - takeover review process, its vagueness grants considerable flexibility.

Any artist or organization found to have broken that commitment would be subject to a review process that could result in loss of grant funding.

Administrators Grant Thornton are now in the process of reviewing the business in an effort to find a buyer and realise assets for creditors.

The eventual granting of the funds took considerable time for Nill to write a grant application and then go through the process which includes review and vetting by city staff, various application training and work sessions and a final vote by the city council on all applications.

In its review of the contract, Educators 4 Excellence, an advocacy group of teachers that often was aligned with the Bloomberg administration's goals, gave the contract a barely passing grade and said it «overlooked several critical issues,» such as class sizes and a tenure - granting process that the group believes ought to be more closely linked to teacher performance.

«Our review process adheres to vigorous standards and legal requirements and examines contracts for construction projects, grants, consultants, commodities, concessions, professional services, intergovernmental agreements, leases, and land purchases and sales.

«As with other disbursements from the HCRA - Assembly Pool, DOH did not review the merits of the grant but simple processed the grant - related paperwork, including the grant contract and vouchers seeking payment against the grant,» the criminal complaint said.

The Legislature passed an amendment to HCRA that granted the leaders of each house the ability to spend up to $ 8.5 million on discretionary grants, none of which had to be disclosed or explained or go through a review process in the state's budget.

There was no competitive - review process for these grants.

If Melohn Properties isn't granted a waiver, its project will have to go through the city's land - use review process.

His office will then review the list and select who will receive a pardon to be granted voting rights, leading to an arbitrary selection process.

At a meeting in September, the chairman of the location board, Kevin Law, said that Atlantic City's decline was one of many factors the state considered as it reviewed the bidders» applications, and that deciding whether or not to grant a license in Orange County — close to New York City — was the «biggest challenge» the state faced in the decision - making process.

The task force designed a transparent and accountable award process for Invest In Kids, including a revised grant application and a community review board of youth service providers and child advocates to promote the grant, administer informational sessions for prospective applicants, and offer an objective review of the pool of applicants.

«After years of puzzling over how its grant - review process might be shortchanging younger scientists, the National Institutes of Health appears to have figured out a more fundamental truth: There just aren't enough of them applying,» reporter Paul Basken writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Yet, industry grants are perceived as «not peer - reviewed and not as prestigious» as public funding, Campbell says, so they may not be given as much weight in the tenure process.

But Acton, who supports the APS petition, calls the granting of the GE Hitachi licence «a tremendous failure of process», adding that the NRC review was limited to the technical aspects of the proposal.

This is an open scheme in which national funding agencies, on a voluntary basis, come together to support a priority topic through a joint Call and Programme specification and a single international peer - review process, but with the grants being implemented at the national level.

The new online peer - review system «was a failed experiment» that shook community faith in fairness of grant selection processes, he told ScienceInsider.

The process has received eight patents and has 75 additional patents under review; 24M has raised $ 50 million in financing from venture capital firms and a U.S. Department of Energy grant.

However, when I was offered my first academic clinical position with a mandate to obtain «peer - reviewed external funding from agencies such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) within a 3 - year span,» it was soon evident that, despite my solid training, I had a lot to learn if I was to be able to be seen as a competent scientist and be able to survive the tough peer - reviewed grant process.

He also attacked the peer review process the NSF used to award grants, saying it was too secretive and «incestuous,» which was leading to funding irrelevant projects.

AHRQ shares the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application and review processes, including those for research studies (e.g. R01, R03), training (K - series), and small business.

In the 2014 fiscal year, the program's peer - review process identified approximately $ 1.1 billion in grants as worthy of funding, but the program could dispense only $ 270 million.

I have great respect for the grant - review process and the people who make it work.

And certain of these review processes — the tenure process, for example — are altogether less exemplary than the grant - review process.

«CIHR embarked on the reform of its open funding programs and peer review process to improve the sustainability of our health research system, the transparency and fairness of our granting processes, and the quality and impact of the research supported by federal investments,» he wrote.

«Overall, this was a great opportunity to learn about this process as part of a graduate course before going out into the real world to review grants as PIs do on actual study sections,» she says.

NCI has not yet decided whether it should add new requirements for omics tests to its peer review process for investigator - initiated grants.

The investigation process required me to review, analyze and respond to questions concerning significant amounts of data, manuscripts, grant applications, and personal correspondences covering more than ten years.

«Under Al's leadership, CPRIT recruited the best review committees in the world while implementing a conflict - free system that is the cornerstone of our cancer research grant award process,» the statement says.

However, hESC grants just beginning the peer - review process probably can't be paid until next fiscal year, which begins 1 October.

A statement by the group's board of directors says the ongoing review of some 60 grants «is having a destructive effect on NSF and on the merit review process that is designed to fund the best research and to remove those decisions from the political process.»

In contrast, the House bill would add another step to the peer - review process by requiring NSF officials to certify that the grant to be awarded addresses an area of importance to the nation.

A lower court's 23 August preliminary injunction halting hESC research «has a profound impact» that «disrupts not only the processing of grant applications currently under review by NIH, but it disrupts many of its currently funded grants, and it has already threatened ongoing programs to educate physicians and physician - researchers,» the brief states.

Smith has publicly questioned at least 50 specific research projects — including a $ 340,000 (# 221,000) grant to examine the ecological consequences of early human - set fires in New Zealand — and demanded to examine the agency's peer review process underlying those awards.

NIH issued guidelines last summer to govern work on the cells, but this spring the Bush Administration halted the process that was to review the first grant applications, saying it wanted to evaluate the issue (ScienceNOW, 9 April).

The proposed guidance required that unless prohibited by Federal statute for competitive grants and cooperative agreements, Federal awarding agencies must design and execute a merit review process for applications.

This recommendation was rooted in an earlier observation by Williams et al, 19 based on both priority scores and funding rates, that clinical grant applications do not fare as well in the review process when evaluated by study sections reviewing relatively few clinical applications.