In a bid to reduce reputational bias, NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is proposing the first overhaul of NIH’s grant proposal scoring system in 14 years.
Researchers familiar with the National Institutes of Health’s peer-review process can cite many cases where the reputation of a scientist or their workplace seemed to count for more than the strength of their ideas. There was the scientist who moved from the Ivy League to a large public university and saw scores on his grant applications drop. The investigators from historically Black institutions who always seemed to do worse than applicants from majority white schools.
The proposed reform was prompted, in part, by a striking pattern in NIH awards: About 70% of grants go to just 10% of all NIH-funded institutions. NIH says both anecdotes and
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