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.
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review the Grant Process 2017.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
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.
However, hESC
grants just beginning the peer -
review process probably can't be paid until next fiscal year, which begins 1 October.
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.
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.
Also yesterday, the board appointed a compliance officer — a new position — to oversee its
grant review processes.
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.
6/20/2007 NCI Renews Moores UCSD Cancer Center Support
Grant and «Comprehensive» Status The Moores UCSD Cancer Center has received double honors from the National Cancer Institute (NCI): renewal of its core support grant amounting to approximately $ 21 million over the next five years, and in a separate but related review process, renew... Mo
Grant and «Comprehensive» Status The Moores UCSD Cancer Center has received double honors from the National Cancer Institute (NCI): renewal of its core support
grant amounting to approximately $ 21 million over the next five years, and in a separate but related review process, renew... Mo
grant amounting to approximately $ 21 million over the next five years, and in a separate but related
review process, renew... More...
The Center for Scientific
Review (CSR) manages the peer review process for approximately 70 % of the grant applications submitted to NIH; the remainder are reviewed in peer review panels managed by the various funding institutes and centers a
Review (CSR) manages the peer
review process for approximately 70 % of the grant applications submitted to NIH; the remainder are reviewed in peer review panels managed by the various funding institutes and centers a
review process for approximately 70 % of the
grant applications submitted to NIH; the remainder are
reviewed in peer
review panels managed by the various funding institutes and centers a
review panels managed by the various funding institutes and centers at NIH.
Nevertheless, there is a continuing perception among clinical investigators that the NIH peer
review process may discriminate against clinical research.11 The purpose of this analysis was to describe recent trends and outcomes of peer
review for
grant applications requesting support for clinical research.
Conclusion Although physicians compete favorably in the peer
review process,
review outcomes are modestly less favorable for
grant applications for clinical research than for laboratory research.
However, larger projects necessitating more extensive CPU time will likely require an additional separate allocation through DOE / ASCR, which can be
granted via a secondary
review process.
Kopacz takes submissions to an annual call for proposals through the peer -
review process to make
grant recommendations.
In addition, the state awarded 39
grants ranging from $ 600,000 to $ 15 million after an intensely competitive
review process, and the legislature has just appropriated another $ 250 million for next year.