New NIH Review Guidance
The increasing breadth, complexity, and interdisciplinary nature of modern research has necessitated a formal review of the NIH peer review system. In March 2008, the NIH announced the end of a year-long diagnostic phase and release of the final report. The report identified the most significant challenges and proposed recommendations that would enhance the peer review system. This site, http://enhancing-peer-review.nih.gov/ explains the new criteria and scoring system and offers templates to write the reviews depending on the mechanism of the application.