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Did
the reviewers like my application?
Before the study section meets, members list all applications believed to be in the lower half for scientific merit. If all members agree, these applications are “streamlined.” They will not be discussed at the meeting, but the assigned reviewers will still provide written critiques.
During the review meeting, competitive applications are discussed.
The voting members of study sections or scientific review
groups score competitive applications from 1.0 (outstanding)
to 5.0 (acceptable), reflecting scientific merit. The average
of these individual ratings is an application's priority
score ,
which appears on the summary statement as 100 through 500. After
initial peer review, scientific
review administrators (SRA) prepare summary
statements to
inform applicants of the outcome. Applications
considered non-competitive-- those unlikely to be funded
-- are not scored. Within a few days after the meeting,
your priority score and percentile ranking are available
to you via the NIH Commons. Go to the Commons website
for information on how a username and password can be obtained.
Based on priority score, competitive applications for some
mechanisms receive a percentile rank, indicating its rank relative
to others reviewed by its review group at the current and past
two review meetings. At NHLBI, an application's percentile
rank is the basis for making the award. However, SBIR,
STTR and K awards receive only a priority score. |
