Peer Review in Practice for Large Scale Investments

Friday, February 12, 2016: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marshall Ballroom South (Marriott Wardman Park)
Richard Nakamura, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
This presentation will draw on experience managing the NIH Center for Scientific Review, overseeing efforts to manage 80,000 incoming NIH grant applications a year and review the majority of them in about 1,500 peer review meetings a year, involving about 16,000 reviewers from the scientific community.