Peer Review

Write Your Application for the Audience

• Part 4. Target Your Audience of the NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal

Consider Requesting a Study Section

• Consider Requesting an Institute and Study Section of the NIH Grant Cycle
  • Requesting an Institute
  • Requesting a Study Section
• CSR Study Section Roster Index

Know How Peer Review Works

• Part 8. Assignment and Review of the NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal
  • Understand Enhancing Peer Review changes -- see links at right
  • Know What a Summary Statement Means. Ask your program officer if your application is likely to be funded.
• Inside the NIH Grant Review Process. See a video of a mock study section at work.
• Peer Review Policies and Practices. Get links to notices, guidelines, policies.

Serve on a Review Committee

• Thank You Members of NIAID Peer Review and Advisory Committees
  • How to Volunteer

More NIAID Grant Portals

For more information, pick the appropriate topic from NIAID's main list of Grants portals by stage, audience, and science area.

Get More Details on Related Topics

• Standard Operating Procedures
  • Peer Review section
• Questions and Answers
  • Peer Review section

Learn About Enhancing Peer Review

• Scoring and Review Changes
• Table of Page Limits
• Details of Application Changes
• Final Draft Report

Read Enhancing Peer Review Articles

• Funding News
  • "The Art of Application"
  • "Are You Ready for the New Forms?"
  • "Get a Handle on the New Application Forms"
  • "Prime Yourself for New Applications, Peer Review"

For Staff

• Inside Extramural article -- "Here Come More Enhancements to Peer Review"
• Enhancing Peer Review: Application Changes and Impact on NIH Staff

Other Helpful Links

• Guidelines for Reviewers
  • Scored Review Criteria Template

Please contact the Enhancing Peer Review team at enhancingpeerreview@mail.nih.gov with any feedback that you may have that can help improve peer review.

Look It Up

• advisory Council
• Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
• critiques
• initial peer review
• renewal
• scientific review group
• scientific review officer (SRO)
• Scientific Review Program (SRP)
• second-level review
• study section
• summary statement

See the Glossary for more terms.