How will awardees be selected?
Applications will be reviewed first by NIH staff for eligibility and then by a multidisciplinary group of outside experts. Applications identified as the most outstanding by the peer reviewers will be forwarded to the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), NIH, which will conduct the second level of review. The Director, NIH, will make the final selection of awardees based on the evaluations by the outside experts, the recommendations of the ACD, and programmatic considerations.
Pre-applications will be reviewed first by NIH staff for compliance to pre-application. Pre-applications that are complete and responsive will be evaluated by a group of external reviewers. Those investigators whose submissions are judged to be the most outstanding will be notified of the opportunity to submit a full (DP1) application under RFA-RM-09-001.
