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Published online 17 June 2009 | Nature 459, 900 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459900a
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Italy outsources peer review to NIH
Some question whether grants should be decided in-country.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is gearing up to begin a review of about 1,000 biomedical research grant applications for the Italian government, an experimental collaboration that comes at an inconvenient time for the US funding agency.
The outsourcing agreement was made last year at the request of Ferruccio Fazio, now Italy's deputy minister for health in the welfare ministry, who is looking to improve the department's peer-review system for awarding competitive research grants (see Nature 455, 719; 2008.
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