Assistant Director What Happens at Sponsor Structure of the NIH Intramural Research Research done onsite by NIH scientists 9 of the NIH budget Extramural Research 82 of budget Research grants ID: 330763
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Alex GaleaAssistant Director
What Happens at Sponsor?Slide2
Structure of the NIH
Intramural Research
Research done onsite by NIH scientists
9% of the NIH budget
Extramural Research – 82% of budget
Research grants
Training
R& D contracts
Research Management &
SupportSlide3
NIH Grant Application Cycle
Proposal Sent to NIH
Proposal sent to the appropriate Institute Advisory Council
Scientific Review Group decides on score for the proposal
Sent to Center for Scientific Research and assigned to Scientific Review Group
PI’s proposal is rejected. PI can revise and resubmit proposal
PI’s proposal is accepted and PI receives award noticeSlide4
Scoring
Approximately half of grants
don’t
get scored and are not discussed at the study section meeting. So you get reviews, but no discussion and no overall priority score
.
New scoring system gives
reviewers
ratings of each scoring
criteriaScored grants (and grant elements) are rated from 1 –
9:1 = perfect score; 9 = worst possible scoreSlide5
SCORING CRITERIA
Score
Descriptor
Additional Guidance on Strengths/Weaknesses
1 Exceptional Exceptionally strong with essentially no weaknesses
2 Outstanding Extremely strong with negligible weaknesses
3 Excellent Very strong with only some minor weaknesses
4 Very Good Strong but with numerous minor weaknesses
5 Good Strong but with at least one moderate weakness6 Satisfactory Some strengths but also some moderate weaknesses7 Fair Some strengths but with at least one major weakness
8 Marginal A few strengths and a few major weaknesses9 Poor Very few strengths and numerous major weaknesses
Minor Weakness: An easily addressable weakness that does not substantially lessen impactModerate Weakness: A weakness that lessens impactMajor Weakness: A weakness that severely limits impactSlide6
PERCENTILES
Also get a percentile
rank
Percentile lets you compare your
grants
score to the likely
payline (cutoff percentile score). The lower the percentile and the score, the better. Fundable % scores generally published every year by the I/C
ExampleScore
: 21, 11% Payline: 15% - grant is nearly sure to
be funded Slide7
Paylines
Differ
Year by year, given level of NIH budget
Institute by Institute – depends on budget level and their long-term commitments
Depending on the Investigator – Advantage given to new investigators (sometimes get extra 5% points). People who have had K awards or small R grants are
still considered new
investigatorsSlide8