Peer Review

Write Your Application for Your 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

Learn How Peer Review Works

• Part 8. Assignment and Review of the NIH Grant Cycle
  • Initial Peer Review Assesses Scientific Merit
  • Know What a Summary Statement Means. Ask your program officer whether your application is likely to be funded.
• Inside the NIH Grant Review Process. See a video of a mock study section at work.
• Enhancing Peer Review at NIH. Keep up with peer review changes.
• Peer Review Policies and Practices. Get links to related notices, guidelines, policies, and practices.

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

Serve on a Review Committee

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

CSR Links

• Center for Scientific Review
  • Peer Review Meetings
    • Study Section Rosters
    • Meeting Schedules
  • Review Guidelines
    • Guide for Assigned Reviewers' Preliminary Comments on R01s
  • CSR Scoring Procedures

Other Helpful Links

• Guidelines for Reviewers
  • Scored Review Criteria Template

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.