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Editorial
Nature 449, 115 (13 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449115a; Published online 12 September 2007
Peer review reviewed
Abstract
The US research community is responding vigorously to calls to help change the system of grant assessment at the National Institutes of Health. A radical transformation is urgently needed.
The peer-review system used by the $29-billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) is more than half-a-century old, and is showing its age. It has become stretched by the breadth of today's science, in which inter- and multidisciplinary grant applications are common, and by the sheer volume of submissions in an era in which one-grant labs have gone the way of the dinosaur.
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